- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 05:02:21 +0100
- To: William Bug <William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On May 29, 2007, at 4:58 AM, William Bug wrote: > This is exactly the point I've been making for over a year now > regarding use of SKOS in biomedical ontology development, and it is > why we use SKOS:prefLabel for all classes in BIRNLex (as well as > having the redundant rdfs:label for interoperability purposes). > The "altLabel" provides a means not only to associate lexical > variants but ultimately to create "namespace qualified" term sets > or "views" of a single ontology with the terms tailored to the > needs of a specific community. There would need to be an expansion > of annotation support in OWL to fully implement this, but SKOS can > provide a means to standard that method in the lexical domain, once > the required annotation capabilities have been added to OWL. [snip] Would you mind explaining exactly what you need from the annotation capabilities? We have been discussing a fairly clean way to beef up OWL 1.1 annotations and I'd be curious to know if it handled this (important) case. Cheers, Bijan.
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