Re: Labeling ConceptSchemes: Best Practices?

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
> 

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