Re: Why not a generic skos:label datatype property? Re: Southampton Pub data as linked open data

Bernard,

> Just to be sure everyone caught it correctly : there is *no* such  
> property as skos:label *so far* in the SKOS vocabulary.
> My proposal is to introduce it in SKOS as a clean, OWL-DL  
> conformant, alternative to various hacking of rdfs:label non- 
> semantics.

Why not use the already existing skos:prefLabel for this?

Also, the SKOS extension for labelling (XL) may be a good starting  
point for this; this vocabulary already allows one to define different  
labels and also model relationships between them.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L4945>

Best, Bernhard

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Bernhard Schandl
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Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:30:50 UTC