- From: Mark van Assem <mark@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:45:46 +0100
- To: "Svensson, Lars" <svensson@dbf.ddb.de>
- CC: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
Hi, You probably already dismissed this possibility, but why is creating a subproperty of skos:prefLabel [1] not a valid solution? Cheers, Mark. [1]http://isegserv.itd.rl.ac.uk/cvs-public/~checkout~/skos/drafts/appextensions.html?rev=1.7#hExSpecLabelling Svensson, Lars wrote: > In litteris suis de Montag, 13. Februar 2006 14:45, Danny Ayers > <mailto:danny.ayers@gmail.com> scripsit: > > >>On 2/13/06, Svensson, Lars <svensson@dbf.ddb.de> wrote: >> >> >>>Classification schemes like the Universal Decimal Classification, >>>MCS, or PACS usually have two human-readable labels: One containing a >>>notation (usually a combination of digits and letters following a >>>specific syntax, so that it's possible to see super-/subclass >>>relationships and ideally to identify precoordinated notations), the >>>other one being kind of free-format text only. Both labels are >>>intended for human use. >> >>For the (potentially) machine-readable label the info: URI scheme may >>offer a possible approach. >> >>http://info-uri.info >> >>It seems to me that mapping between the relationship definitions and a >>SKOS representation would have to be per-scheme, so it might make >>sense to keep the mapping separate from the naming. With info: you >>could assign (SKOS-opaque) URIs to the terms, then label & describe >>relationships using SKOS (the whole lot could perhaps be generated on >>the fly programmatically based on the existing sheme, but from the >>RDF/OWL viewpoint it'd all be declarative). >> > > Errr, well yes. Maybe my quest wasn't quite clear. What I need is not > any kind of identifier, but a label. An example: the class 025.43 in the > Dewey Decimal Classification has the caption "General classification > systems". I want to express "General classification systems" AND > "025.43" as human-readable labels. Something like > > [ns declarations omitted] > ddc:025.43 rdfs:type skos:Concept ; > skos:prefLabel "General classification systems"@en ; > skos:notation "025.43" . > > Of course the notation is implicit from the identifier, but don't we > need something explicit, too, even if it's in a way redundant? > > Lars > -- Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam markREMOVE@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark
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