- From: Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:35:29 -0400
- To: Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez <pastor@um.es>
- Cc: Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
- Message-ID: <AANLkTin35L6qrQ4-cUdY5vxP72zcyrUAbPt1Xb_3E0OH@mail.gmail.com>
2010/8/10 Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez <pastor@um.es> > Hi Alistair: > > Yes, basically this is my question. Thinking primarily in an > application where a KOS can be represented with several Conceptscheme. > A response from Christophe I understand the need to use DC to describe > each Conceptscheme as a resource. I would also add SKOS labels for > querying and browsing the KOS. > > For now, the solution I implemented in the KOS Management System, I am > developing is: > > * Each Concept, Conceptscheme and Collection, must be labeled with at > least one prefLabel. > Bear in mind that a resource should only have one prefLabel per language tag [1], so the above is fine as long as you meant to have all the prefLabel's in different language tags. > * Optionally, the user can add Dublin Core Metadata. > To describe the taxonomies in Drupal 7, we use dc:title to label ConceptScheme resources and skos:prefLabel/rdfs:label to label Concept resources, but there seem to be no strict guideline on this. Steph. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L1567 > > So, I think it would be best to label a Conceptscheme with at least > one prefLabel, and optionally add DC. > > What do you think? > > Cheers > > Juan > > > El día 10 de agosto de 2010 10:39, Alistair Miles > <alimanfoo@googlemail.com> escribió: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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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