Re: Labels separate from localnames (Was: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

On 4/22/11 12:18 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
> Hi Nathan, Kingsley:
> My point is that I want anybody using any ontology / annotation tool to immediately spot the cardinality recommendation. rdfs:label is displayed by all / most tools.

Yes, but time to stop accepting in appropriate patterns :-)

rdfs:comment exists for a reason. Linked Data is better that OS and 
programming lang. locked code, thus we have a massive opportunity to 
also finally make "comments" useful etc..

>   if I hide it in rdfs:comment, it is not as accessible. Defining an owl:AnnotationProperty will be completely invisible in most tools.

Okay, so make gr:label, then place in an owl:equivalentProperty relation 
with rdfs:label. Then via its rdfs:comment value expose a distilled 
version of this conversation :-)


> I actually think that six extra characters (n..m) for the property labels should not really irritate a human-reader when faced with a "raw data view". Again, any data that includes e.g. intermediate nodes for higher arity relationships will look pretty much machine-code style without context-dependent rendering/consolidation.
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> As for the classes, I think we are all in agreement now, e.g.
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>      URI http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#DeliveryChargeSpecification
>      rdfs:label Delivery charge specification
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> For the pre-defined individuals, I think that the class name as additional context does more good than harm:
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>      URI http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#MasterCard
>      rdfs:label MasterCard (payment method)
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> So our only disagreement seems to be about having the cardinality info in the label, and I think that, at least for the moment, that is the better choice as compared to the alternatives.

If you add gr:label to GoodRelations we're set :-)
> It is also easy to create graph of cleansed rdfs:labels for goodrelations based on a simple regex.

Not good. We want to keep the logic in the data, via triples. Thus, 
traditional coding and string manipulation heuristics (regex and 
friends) -- .

Kingsley
> Martin
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> On Apr 22, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Nathan wrote:
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>> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> On 4/22/11 7:36 AM, Martin Hepp wrote:
>>>> See replies inline ;-)
>>>>> Sorry to say this, but I think you are making a mistake. To say that the rdfs:label has to look like a variable name because it is for Web developers sounds to me like you are saying that the javadoc of a method should look like a piece of code because it is addressed to programmers. I refuse to believe that Web developers understand better pseudo code than natural language.
>>>> I will finally give in to use English spacing and capitalization for rdfs:labels in GoodRelations, e.g. use
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>>>>     "Business entity"@en for gr:BusinessEntity etc.
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>>>> But I will keep the cardinality recommendation in the rdfs:label of properties, e.g.
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>>>>      serial number (0..*) for gr:serialNumber
>>> Why not move that to rdfs:comment?
>> +1 seems more like a comment or a description from where I'm standing too, rather than a label.
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