Re: How to add third information in the right way on SKOS document ?

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Concerning the first question, our client advices us to use :
<owl:AnnotationProperty rdf:about="http://www.chu-rouen.fr/cismef#type"/>

Followed by :
<skos:Concept rdf:about="http://fake.com/pts#MSH_D_001249"
myns:type="MeSHdescriptor">

It works but I can't use this attribute on <skos:prefLabel />, it's
not valid. The RDF Validator says "Error: {E201} The attributes on
this property element, are not permitted with any content; expecting
end element tag." Example :
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="fr" myns:type="MeSHsynonyme">asthme</skos:prefLabel>

My skills are not sufficient to resolve this problem. Do you see how
to handle this ?

Thanks,
Thomas

2009/5/26 Thomas Bassetto <thomas.bassetto@insa-rouen.fr>:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks, your response have been very helpful.
>
> As we don't have an existing medical XML vocabulary, I plan to
> specialise SKOS elements.
>
> I have two last questions that remains :
> 1) Is it possible to add attribute to skos elements thanks to rdf
> schema (or another tool) ? For instance, I would like to add a
> myns:type to skos:description -> <skos:definition myns:type="blah">.
> The trouble is that I have several definitions for a same language and
> I don't see how to distinguish them.
> 2) Can someone confirm that http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core.rdf is
> up to date according to last SKOS Reference revision.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> 2009/5/25 Stephen Bounds <km@bounds.net.au>:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> (I apologise if this goes over material you already know, but you said you
>> were new to using RDF and SKOS.)
>>
>> The starting point for designing your solution is to understand that SKOS
>> merely specifies particular semantics for creating an RDF document.
>>
>> Any assertion that is valid in an RDF document is also valid in SKOS.
>>
>> Whether rdf:parseType is appropriate depends upon the context of the XML.
>>  Remember that all RDF consists of a set of triples in the form:
>>
>>  subject, predicate, object
>>
>> A basic SKOS concept in RDF/XML looks something like this:
>>
>>  <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://ex.com/concepts#animals">
>>    <skos:prefLabel>animals</skos:prefLabel>
>>    <skos:altLabel>creatures</skos:altLabel>
>>    <skos:altLabel>fauna</skos:altLabel>
>>  </skos:Concept>
>>
>> which is a way of making the following assertions:
>>
>>  <http://ex.com/concepts#animals> rdf:type skos:Concept.
>>  <http://ex.com/concepts#animals> skos:prefLabel animals.
>>  <http://ex.com/concepts#animals> skos:altLabel creatures.
>>  <http://ex.com/concepts#animals> skos:altLabel fauna.
>>
>> A good way to read these is to add the words "has" and "of", ie
>> "concepts#animals has skos:altLabel of creatures".
>>
>> Here's the important and somewhat confusing thing about RDF/XML -- you
>> cannot add XML which breaks the subject-predicate-object hierarchy unless
>> you specifically denote it using rdf:parseType="Literal".
>>
>> For example, this is not valid RDF/XML:
>>
>>  <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://ex.com/professor#smithj">
>>    <skos:prefLabel>Smith, John</skos:prefLabel>
>>    <my:address>
>>      <my:addr1>Unit 12</my:addr1>
>>      <my:addr2>194 London Circuit</my:addr2>
>>    </my:address>
>>  </skos:Concept>
>>
>> The reason this breaks is that we don't have an object to point "my:address"
>> at.  The two possible object targets of any predicate are a literal (string
>> or XML) or another RDF resource.
>>
>> Instead, write the RDF/XML like this:
>>
>>  <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://ex.com/professor#smithj">
>>    <skos:prefLabel>Smith, John</skos:prefLabel>
>>    <my:address xmlns:xal="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0"
>>                rdf:parseType="Literal">
>>      <xal:AddressDetails>
>>        <xal:AddressLines>
>>          <xal:AddressLine>Unit 12</xal:AddressLine>
>>          <xal:AddressLine>194 London Circuit</xal:AddressLine>
>>        </xal:AddressLines>
>>      </xal:AddressDetails>
>>    </my:address>
>>  </skos:Concept>
>>
>> This informs any RDF parser that the object pointed to by my:address is an
>> XML literal, and should be parsed as such.
>>
>> *If* you already have an existing medical XML vocabulary, the quickest way
>> to add this to a SKOS document would be to add a single custom RDF predicate
>> with rdf:parseType="Literal", and then to insert the XML fragment you need
>> from the medical vocabulary here under this.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you are newly constructing this medical vocabulary
>> now, you could simply write your vocabulary spec in a way that is RDF/XML
>> compliant, for example:
>>
>>  <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://ex.com/professor#smithj">
>>    <skos:prefLabel>Smith, John</skos:prefLabel>
>>    <myns:ATCID>123</myns:ATCID>
>>    <myns:attr1>abc</myns:attr1>
>>    <myns:attr2>xyz</myns:attr2>
>>  </skos:Concept>
>>
>> In the absence of more detailed information, it's hard to give more specific
>> advice, but I hope this provides you with some pointers.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Stephen.
>>
>>
>> Thomas Bassetto wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to create a Web Service for a medical database. The response
>>> from the Web Service should be a valid SKOS document (inside a SOAP
>>> envelope). Hopefully a lot of SKOS elements match my needs. However,
>>> there are some additional information without specific SKOS element
>>> available.
>>>
>>> According to http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/#secskosspecialization ,
>>> "Users can create their own properties and classes and attach them to
>>> the standard SKOS vocabulary elements by using the rdfs:subPropertyOf
>>> and rdfs:subClassOf properties from the RDF Schema vocabulary".
>>>
>>> I plan to create an element for each additional information (like
>>> <myns:ATCID/>)[1] for defining a specific ID.
>>>
>>> But the client doesn't agree. He thinks that this solution is
>>> "proprietary" since I create new elements which are not described in
>>> the norm.
>>>
>>> He propose two alternate solutions :
>>> * use rdf:parseType as attribute to existing SKOS element. To be
>>> frank, I can't see how it could be a solution.
>>> * create a new attribute to <skos:Concept/> ant put ALL the additional
>>> information into it, separated by a coma. Example :  <skos:Concept
>>> rdf:about="http://site.fake#diagnostic"
>>> myns:annotation="ADDINF1=value1,ADDINF2=value2,ADDINF3=value3,...">
>>>
>>> What do you think ? I believe that specialising SKOS elements remains
>>> the best solution.
>>> Moreover, I'm wondering if it's really possible to create a new
>>> attribute for <skos:Concept/>. How ? I'm have never used RDF and SKOS
>>> before.
>>>
>>> Finally, I have another question. I want to use JENA[2] in order to
>>> generate a Java file to create a SKOS document. JENA needs an ontology
>>> or other vocabulary file. In the document called "SKOS RDF Schema"[3]
>>> I have found this Schema : http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core.rdf. Is
>>> it up to date with the last CR of SKOS Reference ?
>>>
>>> I hope I'm clear enough. Feel free to ask me further information.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Thomas Bassetto
>>>
>>> [1] This is not the best example :) For specific ID, I have understand
>>> that  <skos:notation/> is better.
>>> [2]http://jena.sourceforge.net
>>> [3]http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/skos.html
>>>
>>
>



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