- From: Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:47:45 +0100
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Hi, Mapping a classification (not a thesaurus) to SKOS, I stumbled upon the problem of distinguishing unique and non-unique preferred labels. The concepts in our classification have 1. a unique notation (unique) 2. a main label (not unique, as it's no thesaurus) 3. an extendend main label (unique by adding a qualifier) 3. possibly alternative labels Here is a simple example with the non-existing property "skos:uniquePrefLabel" for the extended, unique label: <15.00> skos:notation "15.80" ; skos:prefLabel "history"@en ; skos:narrower <15.87> . <15.87> skos:notation "15.87" ; skos:prefLabel "USA"@en ; skos:uniquePrefLabel "History (USA)"@en ; skos:altLabel "United States"@en . I am searching for a best practice to encode both types of preferred labels: the non-unique but short label, best used in combination with a notation and/or in a hierarchical view if the KOS is used as classification, and the artificial but unique label, best used if the KOS is used as thesaurus. The best solution that I found so far, is creating skos:nonUniquePrefLabel rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:prefLabel ; skos:scopeNote "a preferred label, that is not unique for some concept scheme" . skos:uniquePrefLabel rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:prefLabel ; skos:scopeNote "a preferred label, that is unique for some concept scheme" . but I hesitate to create just another RDF property that nobody else uses. Any suggestions? Jakob P.S: The same can be applied to notations, but non-unique notations are probably less common than non-unique preferred labels. -- Jakob Voß <jakob.voss@gbv.de>, skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de
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