- 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
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