- From: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:35:26 +0100
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, "Chris Wallace" <Chris.Wallace@uwe.ac.uk>, <public-lod@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Making something like pub:name a subProperty of rdfs:label is > essential for the Tabulator for example to know it can use > names as labels in the UI. So please do it The reason I didn't do it was because I do spend most of my time working in the OWL DL world, and hence had it ingrained in me that this was not allowed. Also I like to keep my RDF "OWL DL friendly" so that I can "upgrade" it if necessary with an OWL DL ontology. > (and don't duplicate the data in pub:name and rdfs:label in the data!) For me the pub:name and rdfs:label were two fairly different things. I put the label in as I know many RDF browsers pick up on the label when displaying the RDF, whereas the pub:name was simply another attribute of the pub which happened to coincide with the rdfs:label in this case. For example I had considered putting in both the nickname and the official name. For example the Southwestern Arms in Southampton is often called Nellies. I'd though about a "hasOfficialName" property and "hasNickName" property, both of which would be subclasses of "hasName". If this were then a subproperty of rdfs:label then we could have potentially two labels...and wouldn't this confuse Tabulator? John . This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Romsey Road Southampton SO16 4GU Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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