RE: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd Review: subjectIndicatorUse-1

Done, logged at:

http://esw.w3.org/mt/esw/archives/000139.html

Cheers,

Al.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Miles, AJ 
> (Alistair)
> Sent: 29 September 2005 14:57
> To: public-esw-thes@w3.org; public-swbp-wg@w3.org; Ralph 
> Swick (E-mail);
> Mark van Assem (E-mail)
> Subject: [PORT] SKOS Core 2nd Review: subjectIndicatorUse-1
> 
> 
> 
> Re: change proposal subjectIndicatorUse-1 [1]
> 
> I'll implement the required changes to the RDF/OWL 
> description of SKOS Core asap.  This change requires no 
> corresponding changes to either the SKOS Core Guide or the 
> SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification.
> 
> Responding to Ralph's comments:
> 
> > The intent within the SKOS Core namespace document [2] appears to
> > have been simply to help locate a human-readable definition of the
> > Class or Property.  While having such a triple may be useful, the
> > function can be performed (with looser semantics) by rdfs:seeAlso.
> 
> Yes, this was exactly the intention.  I have no problem 
> substituting rdfs:seeAlso, let's discuss this as a proposal 
> for addition at the next review.
> 
> > I question whether it should be considered good practice to use
> > a URI with an HTML fragment identifier as a subject indicator.
> > As subject indicators must define exactly one subject, it is
> > left to the (human) reader to decide how much of the document
> > fragment identified by the URI comprises this subject indicator.
> > The HTML fragment identifier _could_ denote a section (e.g. div,
> > paragraph, or span) of the document but in the particular case
> > of the SKOS core spec the fragment identifiers appear within
> > short targets; e.g. [3] without clear markup to denote (to a
> > machine) the totality of the intended definition.
> 
> This is valuable feedback for the published subjects 
> technical committee at OASIS (they do use frag ids in some of 
> their examples I believe).
> 
> > Bernard Vatant noted in [4] that this triple in the SKOS Core
> > namespace might lead to confusion in Topic Maps environments
> > so it seems wise to remove it from the SKOS namespace document
> > now and reconsider the broader implications.
> 
> Agreed, this is additional motivation for making the change.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Al.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/review-2#subjectIndicatorUse-1
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec/#hasTopConcept
> [4] 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005May/0002.html


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