- From: Hong Sun <hong.sun@agfa.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:13:10 +0100
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
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Dear All,
I have a problem in assigning labels to SKOS concepts within an evolving
terminology, and am therefore looking for your opinions.
In the ICD 10 coding system, Germany version, the text assigned to a code
changes between different versions, e.g.
in ICD10GM 2004, the code K12.23 has a label:Wangenabszeß
in ICD10GM 2013, the code K12.23 has a label:Wangenabszess
Before realizing the problem, I formalized the code as SKOS concept:
icd10gm:K12.23 a skos:concept;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszeß"@de.
However, it ends up with
icd10gm:K12.23 a skos:concept;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszeß"@de;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszess"@de.
which is not consistent with the integrity constraint S14.
As the ICD 10 GM publish a new version each year, and most of the labels
are stable, it also seems to be overkill to create a concept for each
version, e.g.
icd10gm2004:K12.23 a skos:concept;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszeß"@de.
and
icd10gm2013:K12.23 a skos:concept;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszess"@de.
I also consider to take the labels from the latest version as prefLabel,
and those from an older version as altLabel, e.g.
icd10gm:K12.23 a skos:concept;
skos:prefLabel "Wangenabszess"@de;
skos:altLabel "Wangenabszeß"@de.
The problem for this approach is that in case the code changes in later
versions(e.g. v2014), then the skos:prefLabel needs to be updated again.
If the formalized terminology is already published, then such request to
update will be a problem.
I currently planed to formalize the concept as below:
icd10gm:K12.23 a skos:concept;
rdfs:label "Wangenabszess"@de;
rdfs:label "Wangenabszeß"@de.
Still not very satisfied with this solution yet. Is there any better
solution with other SKOS properties? Meanwhile, is there a general
principle/guideline for SKOS in formalizing (the labels) of an evolving
terminology? Thanks!
Kind Regards,
Hong Sun | Agfa HealthCare
Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research
T +32 3444 8108
Received on Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:13:36 UTC