Re: Using SKOS for representing Drupal taxonomy vocabularies and terms

Hi Stephane

Stephane Corlosquet wrote:
> There you go: S14 [6] says "A resource has no more than one value of 
> |skos:prefLabel| per language tag." (though it's not formally expressed 
> in the RDF schema [7]). How is that supposed to work if one wanted to 
> map (owl:sameAs) a Drupal term (skos:Concept) to another Concept from 
> elsewhere like dbpedia or another authoritative thesaurus which has a 
> different skos:prefLabel? Is that an argument in favor of maybe dropping 
> skos:prefLabel and use something more generic like rdfs:label? How do 
> people feel about using dc:title for the label of a skos:Concept? Or is 
> there a better property for mapping the two which would not have the 
> same effects as owl:sameAs? (cc'ing semantic-web@w3.org 
> <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org> for these more generic questions).

There is in fact a set of better properties for mapping SKOS concepts, listed and described in [1], which can express a varying degree of sameness.

Regards,
  Simon


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/#mapping

Received on Sunday, 21 March 2010 21:00:54 UTC