- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:39:14 +0100
- To: <public-lod@w3.org>
> I thought maybe SKOS [1] might have a suitable term, but alas not. The > nearest I can find on a quick vocab skim (see [2]) are variations on > 'label', but these are unsuitable not only because they're a bit weak, > but also because their range is a literal. So +1 to making up a custom > term. I would suggest using rdfs:seeAlso. I know, I know, usually people complain that rdfs:seeAlso is too generic and demand that the community should come up with some kind of "is quite similar to" predicate (this has been going on for a while now and to my knowledge there are still no serious outcomes). In contrast, I would still prefer an established, generic property to something that needs to be invented anew. rdfs:seeAlso is established (which also means that people are more likely to re-use it then something you create in your own little namespace), and it is also understood by some existing applications. If all of us are starting to create our own "is quite similar to" predicates, we are probably worse off than just using rdfs:seeAlso. The semantics of these "is quite similar to" relations would probably be so fuzzy that they would hardly be any more precise and useful than rdfs:seeAlso, anyways. Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/
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