RE: multilingual labels in SKOS

Peter, 

I may conclude, I use indicate, the SKOS artifacts are not sufficient for my
use case.
The post I made is to validate this.

I do thing though it is also and RDFS/OWL issue.
As indicated below, the OWL semantics easily allow to break any language
specific modeling.
So specifying properties like prefLabel-LANGUAGE always will need
proprietary code to validate.

It may be interesting for SKOS to promote this use case to OWL 2.  

kr, Johan De Smedt. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ansell [mailto:ansell.peter@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, 01 June, 2008 00:07
To: Johan De Smedt
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org; Alistair Miles
Subject: Re: multilingual labels in SKOS

You are likely to have to create a prefLabel-LANGUAGE for each of your
desired languages to get around it, trouble is though, that you can't
get around the prefLabel cardinality if you derive these from it, so
you would have to find another way. OWL doesn't care about literals
really, it is more focused on ensuring that subjects and predicates
are used "accurately", where accurately is decided by the ontology
designer. Is there any real advantage to using prefLabel instead of a
whole lot of alternates in your case anyway?

Peter

2008/6/1 Johan De Smedt <johan.de-smedt@tenforce.com>:
>
> Dear,
>
> Neither of RDF-Schema or OWL seem to handle functional properties for
> multilingual values very well.
> Typically these could be used for skos:prefLabel.
> (A prefLabel is desired to have cardinality 1,
>  but extensions to SKOS to realize this do not work out in a multilingual
> KOS)
>
> - Is this use case handled by SKOS ?
> - is there an advised solution pattern ?
>  e.g. making language specific sub-properties of skos:prefLabel that do
> have cardinality 1
>       (I do not like this because nothing prevents me making an
> xx:prefLabel-en getting the value "dit is niet in de juiste
> taal"@nl^^xsd:string)
> - do we need to turn to inference rules to solve this ?
>
> thanks for advice on handling this use-case.
>
> Kind Regards,
>   Johan De Smedt
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