- From: Armando Stellato <stellato@info.uniroma2.it>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:27:18 +0100
- To: <vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com>
- Cc: <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Dear Vladimir, Thanks a lot for your feedback and experience report. Regarding "when creating a new label", I think we will setup an option to have the check for existing labels (and prompt the user to reuse them, only if a match is found), only in case a user is interested in that shared scenario. Cheers, Armando > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir Alexiev [mailto:vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:13 PM > To: 'Armando Stellato' > Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org > Subject: RE: identity of SKOSXL labels > > Hi Armando! > > > there is no enforcement by SKOSXL and it's a modeler's choice. > > Yes, and I can see legitimate uses for both models: > - shared Label: only when there's a logical and permanent reason why the > two labels are the same. > Then the maintenance of this shared label can be easier, because it needs > to be done only once. > - own (copied) Label: this is the usual case. Use when the literals are > *incidentally* the same but may become different in the future > It also makes the referential management of labels more difficult: if you > delete a concept, you need to refcount before you can delete its labels. > > SKOS editors should enforce neither model. But could they support both? > - When creating a new label, I think it's a stretch to ask the user "reuse a > shared label?": just create an own one > - RDF-native editors (like VocBench) may receive a SKOS file with shared > labels... In that case I think keeping them shared is best. > > ---- > > I am not aware of any actual SKOS thesaurus using shared labels. > > But here's a related example: > Getty has a peculiar internal organization: > literals are shared between *languages* > > Lookie at the first 3 "Terms" here: > http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=rhyta&logic=AND¬e=& > english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300198841 > the string "rhyta" is actually shared between the languages en (English), el- > Latn (Greek transliterated) and es (Spanish) in their database > > But of course when mapped to skos-xl, we had to unshare. Lookie here: > http://getty.ontotext.com/resource/aat/300198841 > Those 3 terms are mapped to different skosxl:Label nodes: > skosxl:prefLabel aat_term:1000198841-en, aat_term:1000198841-el-Latn; > skosxl:altLabel aat_term:1000198841-es > > Aye? > > PS: this is still under development, we know there are omissions and > buggies. > Eg skosxl:prefLabel are dumbed down to skos:prefLabel but skosxl:altLabel > aren't
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