RE: rude categorisation

... choice of the word 'rude' here not so clever, I meant rough/fuzzy/ambiguous.

(Folks here at SWIG talking alot today about internet content filtering, so we all have a different connotation of 'rude' in mind :)

Cheers,

Al.

---
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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Miles, AJ 
> (Alistair)
> Sent: 01 March 2005 19:40
> To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Subject: rude categorisation
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thinking about the application of SKOS to things like weblog 
> categorisation schemes, and also to traditional 
> classification schemes ... it seems like the semantics of a 
> 'categorisation' of an information resource against a concept 
> are often ambiguous.  The two main meanings I have come 
> across are *subject* (i.e. the categorisation says something 
> about the subject of the information resource) and *type* 
> (where the categorisation says something about the type of 
> the resource).   
> 
> Given that there exists this kind of ambiguity, it doesn't 
> seem right to use the skos:subject property across the board 
> when dealing with weblog categorisations or classification 
> schemes.  I'm thinking that we could create a more general 
> property, e.g. 'skos:rudeCategorisation' which would be a 
> semantically more appropriate vehicle for dumping any type of 
> ambiguous categorisations into RDF.  The skos:subject 
> property would then be a sub-property of this.  What do you think?
> 
> As an aside, I came across this kind of ambiguity in PACS 
> (the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme) when 
> writing a report on classification schemes for SWAD-E, see [1].
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Al.
> 
> [1] RDF Encoding of Classification Schemes 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/8.5/
> 
> ---
> 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
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:20:11 UTC