- From: Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:30:02 +0100
- To: <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: Stella Dextre Clarke [mailto:sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk] Sent: 07 June 2005 14:11 To: Miles, AJ (Alistair) Subject: RE: SKOS Public Working Drafts Alistair, Have just got to the end of the Core Guide. I enjoyed it. Nice and clear. I like the way you have a diagram beside every box with the syntax laid out. Two more minor comments: a) In the discussion about synonyms, you give examples of equivalents that are "all valid" including some quasi-synonyms, some antonyms, some narrower concepts subsumed in a broader one. Absolutely fine. But it would be good to clarify that this applies only within the bounds of that particular concept scheme and the resources indexed with it. A geologist looking at the examples might be horrified to see 'Basalt' equated with 'Rocks' because a concept scheme designed for indexing his collections would treat these as narrower and broader terms respectively. This ties up with a point that appears much later, concerning validity of concepts across schemes, and could be made to tie up with the later mentions of mappings etc.... but maybe that is getting off the point. The main thing is to clarify that the decisions about equivalence relationships can only be determined for a particular context, where the concept scheme is expected to be applied. b) Re the discussion of public versus private notes, I agree you can't lay this down from above. For example, definitions could be made public for one audience, private for another. Likewise Change notes. ( BTW I have not previously come across the distinction bet History note and Change note, but I'm finding it may be necessary for the IPSV that I am currently working with. Users like to see one kind of note; system administrators when implementing updates may like to see a different type of note.) That's all. Hope to get on to your other documents before long. Stella ***************************************************** Stella Dextre Clarke Information Consultant Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8RR, UK Tel: 01235-833-298 Fax: 01235-863-298 SDClarke@LukeHouse.demon.co.uk ***************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) [mailto:A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk] Sent: 06 June 2005 15:58 To: SDClarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk Subject: SKOS Public Working Drafts Hi Stella, Just a note to say, if you have any comments on the first public working draft editions of the SKOS Core Guide [1], Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web [2] and SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification [3] it would be great if you could send them before June 30th. We have a second review scheduled for 17th July, after which we'll publish revised working drafts, and your input (as always :) would be very much appreciated. I'm conscious that [2] in particular could be a lot better, and your feedback on that would be especially helpful. Feel free to pass this request for comments on to colleagues, especially those working on GCL and related standards. Yours, Alistair. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050517/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20050510/ --- Alistair Miles Research Associate CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440
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