- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:29:14 +0100
- To: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Cc: "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>, public-lld@w3.org
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote: > Quoting "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>: > >> Skosxl:Label treates "names" as first class objects. There is a solution >> here somewhere, but we need to separate the identity of "the name" from >> "the thing". Skosxl:prefLabel/altLabel do that. Authority is also important >> when naming and skos:inScheme helps there. > > Perhaps I don't understand the difference between SKOS and Skosxl, but my > reading of the use of labels for both of those is that you are providing the > label for *something*. In authority data, the authoritative name (the MARC > 1XX) *is* the thing. At least, that seems to be what FRAD is saying. My understanding of SKOS vs SKOSXL is just that in XL the content of the label is itself a first class thing. Which can be useful when you want to say other things about the label. So in this case it would give a kind of double-indirection in that with this FRAD/MARC stuff we are also applying the label to a thing that stands for a person's name. So we'd potentially have 1. the person as a thing 2. the person's name as a thing 3. the label for the person's name as a thing (if using skosxl:) Dan
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