- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:43:19 -0800
- To: Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Cc: "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>, public-lld <public-lld@w3.org>, Ahsan Morshed <Ahsan.Morshed@fao.org>, Johannes Keizer <johannes@jkeizer.com>
Quoting Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>: > > One key reason -- and the reason which motivated the > requirement for skosxl:Label in the design of SKOS > in the first place [1] -- is to be able to express > relationships between labels such as "IBM is an acronym > for International Business Machines" (hasAcronym) or > "The term X is a synonym for the term Y" (hasSynonym). Thanks to Tom and Marcia for these examples. If these are the reasons for treating names as actual entities then it makes sense as a purely practical matter. I would love to hear if this is the reasoning behind FRAD's choice of treating name and identifier as parallel entities. The madsrdf documentation states that only authoritative terms will be given identifiers, and therefore more information about them requires them to be treated as blank nodes. kc -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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