- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:58:29 -0500
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
[sigh; typo'd the WG address. Please follow up to this one instead. Sorry for the noise] * Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> [2005-02-11 12:54-0500] > > +cc: SWBP WG > > Just noticed something that looks to me like a bug; sorry > I didn't catch it earlier. > > http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/guide/#secdocumentation > defines 3 idioms for documentation, and 8 properties for > public or private notes, definitions, examples etc. > They are all defined as sub-property of rdfs:comment. > > [[ > There are three recommended usage patterns for the SKOS Core > documentation properties: > > * Documentation as an RDF Literal > * Documentation as a Related Resource Description > * Documentation as a Document Reference > ]] > > Unfortunately, only the first clearly fits with the definition > of http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment (the 2nd might, I'd > need to check); I'm sure the 3rd doesn't. The RDFS spec defines > the range of rdfs:comment to be rdfs:Literal. And documents aren't > literals. > > My suggestion would be to drop the 'subPropertyOf' assertion, and > perhaps record an issue on this, since there is some appeal to > having the 'documentation as an RDF Literal' idiom show up as a > use of rdfs:comment, and there is some appeal to using the other > idioms. And we already have 8 properties; not sure we'd really > want 16 if we duplicated them. > > As an aside, I'd be interested to see 'best practice' for using > hypertext in SKOS and in RDFS/OWL definitions and comments. Perhaps > using one of the cut-down (mobile oriented) XHTML profiles... > > cheers, > > Dan > > > <rdf:Property rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment"> > <rdfs:isDefinedBy > rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"/> > <rdfs:label>comment</rdfs:label> > <rdfs:comment>A description of the subject resource.</rdfs:comment> > <rdfs:domain > rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource"/> > <rdfs:range > rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal"/> > </rdf:Property>
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