- From: Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
- Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:52:55 +0100
- To: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>, Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr>
- Cc: LocAdd W3C CG Public Mailing list <public-locadd@w3.org>, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Message-id: <CAHzfgWDvkC2CujzHSAWCHzqC2LUmG_ZsD9dgWMHLSc13QGsFSA@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, forgot to edit the subject and start the new thread. I just posted the same message to a new thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-locadd/2014Jan/0037.html Please use it for future comments on the corresponding issue. Andrea On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Andrea Perego < andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu> wrote: > (Original mail: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-locadd/2014Jan/0029.html. See > also: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-locadd/2014Jan/0026.html) > > Ghislain, Raphaël, thanks for raising this issue. I'm moving this > discussion in a separate thread, since it concerns more in general the > issue of how to re-use terms from existing vocabularies. > > About defining a new class: Michael and I, along with the ISA CLV TF, > decided not to do that, since we meant to promote the re-use of > dcterms:Location. Defining a class locn:Location, even as a subclass of > dcterms:Location, would have had the opposite effect. > > We tried not to specify additional statements to the current definition of > dcterms:Location (and possible future changes). This is why > dcterms:Location is not typed, and domain and range are left unspecified. > But we had to add some annotation properties (plus vs:term_status and > dcterms:identifier) to explain how it was meant to be re-used in the scope > of the LOCN vocabulary. > > Of course, the same applies to term "geographic identifier" (as spotted by > Raphaël in [1]). > > So, the question is: can we agree on a way to give a context to statements > concerning the re-use of terms from existing vocabularies? Should we use, > e.g., the PROV and/or Open Annotation data models, even though this would > make the specification more complex? > > @Bernard, I wonder whether you would like to contribute your view on this > issue. > > It may be also good to share this discussion with other WGs/CGs, who have > already addressed / are going to address this and similar issues. > > @Phil, any suggestion? > > Thanks! > > Andrea > > ---- > [1]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-locadd/2014Jan/0026.html > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>wrote: > >> Yes, indeed! It is http://www.w3.org/ns/locn#dcterms:Location >>> >> >> ... but it seems to me that this is a bad practice anyway. Either the >> vocab wants to re-use the dcterms:Location class and it should not hijack >> its definition OR it needs its own specific class and it should not give it >> for QNAME an existing QNAME. >> >> >> Raphaël >> >> -- >> Raphaël Troncy >> EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech >> Multimedia Communications Department >> 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. >> e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com >> Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 >> Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 >> Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/ >> >> > > > -- > Andrea Perego, Ph.D. > European Commission DG JRC > Institute for Environment & Sustainability > Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data > Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262 > 21027 Ispra VA, Italy > > DE+RD Unit: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DE > > ---- > The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may > not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official > position of the European Commission. > -- Andrea Perego, Ph.D. European Commission DG JRC Institute for Environment & Sustainability Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262 21027 Ispra VA, Italy DE+RD Unit: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DE ---- The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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