- From: Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:39:58 +0100
- To: Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez <pastor@um.es>
- Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Hi Juan, I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking whether... <X> rdf:type skos:ConceptScheme ; dc:title "My First Thesaurus"@en . ...or... <X> rdf:type skos:ConceptScheme ; skos:prefLabel "My First Thesaurus"@en . ...is best practice? Cheers Alistair On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:50:12PM +0200, Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I doubt arises regarding labeling practices of SKOS Conceptscheme. The > most common practice is the labeling by dc: title. From my point of > view might have to distinguish between the description of an action by > a metadata schema (in this case Dublin Core) and the need for > consistent Conceptscheme from the perspective of the SKOS model. > > In the latter case I think would be labeled by concepts prefLabel > schemes, altLabel, and even hiddenLabel for and applications using > SKOS data, to query a specific KOS, using these properties. > > DC labels should be limited to the description of a SKOS element in > the environment of other data sets for other applications (such as a > digital repository). > > In this regard, my analysis of most of the SKOS Dataset has led me to > the conclusion (maybe I'm wrong) that for the most common practice to > represent a KOS, normally used only one Conceptscheme. > > I have the feeling that this practice creates KOS too "monolithics", > limiting their interoperability and reusability. Perhaps this is why > normally used dc: title instead of SKOS properties to label > Conceptscheme. > > What do you think? > > Greetings. > > Juan. > > -- > Ph.D. Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez > Dep. of Information and Documentation > Faculty of Communication and Documentation > University of Murcia > phone: +34 868 88 8780 > http://webs.um.es/pastor > pastor@um.es > -- Alistair Miles Head of Epidemiological Informatics Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alimanfoo@gmail.com Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
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