- From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:43:12 +0100
- To: public-gld-comments@w3.org
On 06/04/13 17:37, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Makx, > > On 5 Apr 2013, at 11:48, Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com> wrote: >> I’d like to point to a decision taken by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and documented at http://dublincore..org/documents/naming-policy/ : >> >> “No DCMI Term Names will be assigned that differ from other Names only in regard to case.” > > AFAIK, DCMI namespaces contain *either* classes *or* properties but not both. So the policy seems to address a case that will never occur anyway. DCAT has a single namespace that contains both classes and properties, so the concerns are different. > >> Can you refer to cases where vocabularies use the same name for a class and a property with only difference in case? > > Among those I've worked with, SWRC, Bio and MO all do it. I'm sure there's others. PO (Programme Ontology) is another example (episode/Episode, channel/Channel etc). Dave >> I looked at other vocabularies (FOAF, VOID, SKOS, GoodRelations, DOAP, MO, RDFS) and none of them seem to do this. > > You didn't look very carefully, Makx! MO has mo:Track and mo:track, mo:Record and mo:record. > > Best, > Richard >
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