RE: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

Marcia,

 

I agree that skos:broader/narrower COULD be used to relate corporate
bodies hierarchically, but I don't think it SHOULD because corporate
bodies aren't skos:Concepts, I believe skos:broader/narrower COULD be
used in this scenario IF SKOS removed the rdfs:domain setting on
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#semanticRelation. This would make it
completely within the spirit of SKOS's stated design rationale:

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#rationale

 

Jeff

 

From: ZENG, MARCIA [mailto:mzeng@kent.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:08 PM
To: Young,Jeff (OR); Ed Summers; public-lld@w3.org
Subject: Re: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF

 

Jeff,

On 4/13/11 11:15 AM, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote:

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
>


Re: skos:broader and skos:narrower - maybe in some authority files, as
you said, these are not apply.  But VIAF is a hub of many others, which
may have the broader and narrower relationship for corporate bodies.  I
would like to use ULAN ( Union List of Artist Names (r)) as the example
here, as I understand that ULAN is already in VIAF.   

ULAN was originally constructed as a simple alphabetized "union list" of
clustered artist names and biographies, as a part of the Getty's effort
began in 1984 for merging and coordinating controlled vocabulary
resources for use by the automated documentation projects in the J. Paul
Getty Trust.  "[I]n the late 1990s ULAN was brought into compliance with
national and international standards for thesaurus construction. Its
scope was broadened to include corporate bodies such as architectural
firms and repositories of art, which may have hierarchical levels." [1]
A good example is the Smithsonian Institution and the 
many museums of it (e.g., National Gallery of Art ) and their
subordinates.

Marcia

[1] History of the ULAN. In: About the ULAN. The Getty Research
Institute.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/about.html