Re: Common RDF Vocabulary Labels Vocabulary

Hi Christopher,

I'm not sure that we want to duplicate triples from the other schemas.  I've recently run into a few systems (RDF databases) that don't handle SPARQL's DISTINCT well or have a system-wide de-duping policy that cause others trouble.  In those systems, putting duplicate triples in can cause trouble.  I see the value for translators, though.

The use case I was going for is when you put a vocabulary into an RDF database (presumably with some data that uses that vocabulary) and then add this vocabulary to the mix.  In that case, you have all the class and property labels already, as well as any comments from the original vocabs.

Maybe translators could do the same thing?  Or are there other use cases I didn't see?

Regards,
Dave




On Jun 6, 2011, at 12:48, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> Quick work! I've noticed there's no class labels, yet. Would be handy eg, foaf:Agent etc.
> 
> Definitions, eg.
> eg.
> foaf:phone skos:prefLabel "phone number"@en"
> foaf:phone rdfs:comment "A phone number, specified using fully qualified tel: URI scheme (refs: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html#tel)."
> 
> Translating those would make it much easier for people to use these schemas. Making a big batch of useful labels to be translated in one go seems like a really good idea, although I'm sure you can feel the feaping creatures looming.
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/06/11 17:36, David Wood wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, Christopher and Antoine.
>> 
>> Language labels have been added for the current English labels.  I'm not sure what kind of rdfs:comments might be useful for translators, so I didn't add any yet.  Perhaps that will become obvious.
>> 
>> Also, the HTML file now lists all the labels in a table.
>> 
>> Antoine, I look forward to seeing a French translation!  Thanks heaps.
>> 
>> The latest version (20110606) is now up at:
>>   http://purl.org/net/prototypo/labels
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 05:42, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> I would go further and suggest that you cut and paste in the property & class definitions to provide a single file which can be translated to enable core parts of the semweb in other languages.
>>> 
>>> It's quite easy for a volunteer to just translate all the xml:lang="en" bits into other languages.
>>> 
>>> Maybe I'll do a "en-gb". "Centre", "Organisation", "Pavement" etc. *grin*
>>> 
>>> On 06/06/11 09:01, Antoine Zimmermann wrote:
>>>> May I suggest that you add language tags, and possibly later extend this vocab with other languages? I can even provide the terms in French.
>>>> 
>>>> Le 06/06/2011 00:36, David Wood a écrit :
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to announce the availability of a small, but hopefully useful, vocabulary consisting of singular, plural and inverse singular human-readable labels for some common RDF vocabularies.  The idea is to provide a way for user interfaces to look up labels for RDF classes and properties where they were not provided by their vocabulary's author.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The Common RDF Vocabulary Labels Vocabulary is available via content negotiation at:
>>>>>   http://purl.org/net/prototypo/labels
>>>>> 
>>>>> The HTML description needs some work, but I need to play with my kids now.  The Turtle is probably the easiest version to look at for the moment:
>>>>>   http://purl.org/net/prototypo/labels-20110603.ttl
>>>>> 
>>>>> Have fun and please tell me if I should add any other labels.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Dave
>>>> 
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