Re: best practice property to use for naming a skos:ConceptScheme

Hi Bob,

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com> wrote:

>  Yesterday I was discussing with a colleague whether rdfs:label or
> skos:prefLabel would be better, and today I noticed this at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/#L1045 :
>
>  <S> rdf:type skos:ConceptScheme ;
>   dct:title "My First Thesaurus" ;
>   skos:hasTopConcept <B> .
>
> dct: is never declared anywhere. I'm guessing from the t that
> http://purl.org/dc/terms/ was meant, but title is a property of
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ , not of http://purl.org/dc/terms/ .
> Either way, it's confusing and another example of why people should always
> declare their prefixes, if only in a note at the beginning of a spec that
> uses them in examples.
>
> But enough of my complaining. Has anyone seen a common practice using a
> particular property to assign a human-readable label to a
> skos:ConceptScheme?
>

FYI, Drupal 7 uses dc:title for the human readable label of its vocabularies
(skos:ConceptScheme), where dc is mapped to http://purl.org/dc/terms/.

Steph.


>
> thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>