- From: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:05:48 -0800
- To: "Sini, Margherita (KCEW)" <Margherita.Sini@fao.org>
- Cc: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
The appropriate relation between those terms would be "EnglishEquivalent" or some such, not "preferredLabel". Daniel Quoting "Sini, Margherita (KCEW)" <Margherita.Sini@fao.org>: > > I can give an example in French: > > politique (FR) = politics (EN) > and > politique (FR) = policies (EN) > > But I also know that we have maybe to change one of the two French terms... > > And > > Colourants (ES) = Colourants (EN) ---- BT Chemical substances > and > Colourants (ES) = Dyes (EN) ---- BT Colourants > > (but maybe in the second case the spanish should be Tintes?) > > Regards > Margherita > > > -----Original Message----- > From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org on behalf of Daniel Rubin > Sent: Fri 08/02/2008 13:38 > To: Antoine Isaac; SWD WG > Cc: > Subject: Re: [SKOS] ISSUE-32 ConceptSchemeLabellingInteractions > > > > > At 12:44 AM 2/8/2008, Antoine Isaac wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >Alistair had some concern about the wording of the attached > >proposal, which we accepted in last week's. > >> > >>Dear all, > >> > >>Regarding ISSUE-32 ConceptSchemeLabellingInteractions [1], I > >>propose that we accept the following recommendation from the SKOS > >>Primer [2, section 2.1.1] > >> > >>>Following common practice in KOS design, the preferred label of a > >>>concept may be also used to unambiguously represent this concept > >>>within one KOS and its applications. Although SKOS semantics do > >>>not formally enforce it, it is therefore recommended that no two > >>>concepts in the same KOS be given the same preferred lexical label > >>>in any given language. > > > >To alleviate these concerns, the Primer should now read > >[[ > >Following common practice in KOS design, the preferred label of a > >concept may be also used to unambiguously represent this concept > >within one KOS and its applications. It is therefore recommended > >that no two concepts in the same KOS be given the same preferred > >lexical label in any given language. But SKOS semantics do not > >formally enforce this, since some commonly used classification > >schemes, for instance, may break this rule. > > Can you give example of a classification scheme that breaks this > rule? It doesn't make much sense for the preferred label of a concept > NOT to unambiguously represent the concept within ONE KOS. > > >]] > > > >Alistair, are you ok with this? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Antoine > >> > >> > >>[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/32 > >>[2] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOS/DraftPrimer , January > >>24 editor's draft. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
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