Re: Is there a general "preferred" property?

Bernard Vatant wrote:
> Nathan
> 
> Interesting discussion indeed, at least allowing me to discover
> con:preferredURI I missed so far ... although I was looking for something
> like that, and it was just under my nose in LOV :)
> http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/search/#s=preferred
> 
> If I parse correctly the definition of con:preferredURI  (A string which is
> the URI a person, organization, etc, prefers that people use for them.) it
> applies only to some agent able to express its preference about how
> he/she/it should be identified. The domain is open, but if I was to close
> it I would declare it to be foaf:Agent.

How about wikipedia articles / dbpedia articles? they have uris which 
redirect to a preferred canonical one quite often - likewise rel 
canonical as used throughout the web for "documents" ?

> This is quite different from skos:prefLabel which expresses the preference
> of a community of vocabulary users about how some concept should be named
> (a practice coming from the library/thesaurus community). The borderline
> case are authorities, when LoC uses skos:prefLabel in their authority files
> for people of organization, they don't ask those people or organizations if
> they agree (many of them not being in position to answer anyway ...).
> 
> Seems we lack some x:prefURI expressing the same type of preference as
> skos:prefLabel.
> With of course con:preferredURI rdfs:subPropertyOf x:prefURI
> 
> And a general  property  x:hasURI
> 
> x:hasURI    x:preferred   x:prefURI
> 
> Meaning that :
> 
> ex:foo    x:hasURI      'bar'
> 
> entails
> 
> <bar>   owl:sameAs   ex:foo

agree, seems to be the same functionality as described by rel=canonical 
which is in general use too.

> Not sure of notations here, what I mean by <bar> is the resource of which
> URI is the string 'bar'
> 
> And while we are at it x:altURI would be nice to have also :)

Unsure if I agree with this one.. I can't see what it brings to the 
table above multiple values for owl:sameAs, or in the other use case 
over multiple values for rdfs:label ?

Best,

Nathan

> Bernard
> 
> 2012/7/17 Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
> 
>> Good point and question! I had assumed preferred by the owner of the
>> object, just as you have a con:preferredURI for yourself.
>>
>> The approach again comes from you, same approach as
>> link:listDocumentProperty (which now appears to have dropped from the link:
>> ontology?)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting to go meta on this with x:preferred .
>>>
>>> What would be the meaning of "preferred" -- "preferred by the object
>>> itself or
>>> the owner of the object itself"?
>>>
>>> In other words, I wouldn't use it to store in a local store my preferred
>>> names
>>> for people, that would be an abuse of the property.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On 2012-07 -15, at 19:42, Nathan wrote:
>>>
>>>  Essentially what I'm looking for is something like
>>>>  foaf:nick x:preferred foaf:preferredNick .
>>>>  rdfs:label x:preferred foaf:preferredLabel .
>>>>  owl:sameAs x:preferred x:canonical .
>>>>
>>>> It's nice to have con:preferredURI and skos:prefLabel, but what I'm
>>>> really looking for is a way to let machines know that x value is preferred.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody know if such a property exists yet?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Nathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:16:32 UTC