RE: Scientific and common names in SKOS

The problem is that I wish not to use altLabels for scientific names, because
the concept may have actually many more others altLabels... In fact i wish
that people while indexing or searching documents, they could use a common
name OR a scientific name based in their needs (a document on a receipt of
potato or a scientific treaty on the species).
 
e.g.
 
<skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc#potatoes">
     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">potatoes</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Irish Potato</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">white potato</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">potato (Solanaceae)</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="es">papa</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="es">patata</skos:prefLabel>
    <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="LA">Solanum tuberosum L.</skos:prefLabel>
    <skos:altLabel xml:lang="LA">Solanum tuberosum</skos:prefLabel>
</skos:Concept>
 
My problem with this solution above is that generally people selecting their
main language as English or Spanish, should also have access to the latin
names... so tagging them with latin, i am not sure is the good solution...
The other solution may be:
 
<skos:Concept rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc#potatoes">
     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">potatoes</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Irish Potato</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">white potato</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">potato (Solanaceae)</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="es">papa</skos:prefLabel>
     <skos:altLabel xml:lang="es">patata</skos:prefLabel>
</skos:Concept>
 
<skos:Concept
rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc#solanum_tuberosum">
    <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Solanum tuberosum L.</skos:prefLabel>
    <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Solanum tuberosum</skos:prefLabel>

    <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="es">Solanum tuberosum L.</skos:prefLabel>
    <skos:altLabel xml:lang="es">Solanum tuberosum</skos:prefLabel>
</skos:Concept>
 
And make the 2 concepts exactMatch.... 
 
Which one would be better? What other solutions?
 
Thanks
Margherita
 
 

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org on behalf of Alan Ruttenberg 
 Sent: Tue 9/30/2008 06:30 
 To: Houghton,Andrew 
 Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org 
 Subject: Re: Scientific and common names in SKOS
 
 


 On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Houghton,Andrew <houghtoa@oclc.org>
wrote:
 

  > From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-esw-thes-
  > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sini, Margherita (KCEW)
  > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:49 PM
  > To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
  > Subject: Scientific and common names in SKOS
  
  >
  >
  > Dear all,
  >
  > I have the following problem: how to represent a KOS which
contains
  > organisms
  > with scientific names and common names in SKOS?
  >
  > example for plants:  potatoes and "Solanum tuberosum", will
these be 2
  > skos:concepts? NOTE: they may be both descriptors in the
KOS, for
  > indexing
  > purposes.
  > Both can have multiple non-descriptors...
  >
  
  > [...]
  
  >
  > OR
  >
  > <skos:Concept
rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc#potatoes">
  >     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">potatoes</skos:prefLabel>
  >     <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="LA">Solanum
tuberosum</skos:prefLabel>
  > </skos:Concept>
  >
  > What if in the terminology i use both scientific name and
common name
  > are
  > preferred and they are both marked in English? ... i cannot
use 2
  > skos:prefLabel  for same language...
  
  
  Why not just declare fao:commonLabel and fao:scientificLabel
as sub-properties of skos:prefLabel?
  
  Something like:
  
  <rdf:Property
rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc/commonLabel">
   <rdfs:subPropertyof
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos#prefLabel"/>
  </rdf:Property>
  
  <rdf:Property
rdf:about="http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc/scientificLabel">
   <rdfs:subPropertyof
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos#prefLabel"/>
  </rdf:Property>
  


 If you can't have two prefLabels, you can't do this. This means that
each time you say

 x commonLabel foo
 y scientificLabel bar

 You have inferred (because of what subPropertyOf means - see rdfs7 in
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/)

 x prefLabel foo
 y prefLabel bar

 i.e. two values for prefLabel.

 You can, however, have two altLabels.

 -Alan

Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 06:01:17 UTC