RE: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

SKOS has a lot of bells and whistles. Just because the broader/narrower bells aren't useful in this case shouldn't discourage us from using the skos:prefLabel/skos:altLabels whistles. See my earlier message for why skos:prefLabel shouldn't be assigned directly to person, though.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lld-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lld-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Ed Summers
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:55 AM
> To: public-lld@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
> 
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ross Singer <ross.singer@talis.com>
> wrote:
> > Does Barbara Tillett have broader/narrower resources?  "Tillett,
> > Barbara--Criticism", "Tillet, Barbara--Biographies", etc.  This is
> where I
> > have a hard time leaping.
> 
> Me too, and it's why in my previous email I said that if it were up to
> me (which it isn't) loc.gov would publish one identifier for Barbara
> Tillett, and it would be of type foaf:Person (or some other suitable
> class for a Person) and not a skos:Concept.
> 
> //Ed
> 

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:17:08 UTC