RE: Issue-76: SymbolicLabels

Hi Margherita,

Thanks for these use cases, this is really useful. I think these are important use cases, and we should have an idea of how to represent them.

Note that originally, skos:prefSymbol and skos:altSymbol were intended to link to images, i.e. resources which dereference as jpg or png or gif. Hence the range of these properties in earlier drafts was dcmitype:Image. 

Perhaps the skos:notation property might be a more appropriate property for these types of chemical "symbol"? Or skos:prefLabel with an appropriate x- language tag?

Regards,

Alistair.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-swd-wg-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sini, Margherita (KCEW)
> Sent: 13 May 2008 17:55
> To: SWD WG
> Subject: Issue-76: SymbolicLabels
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Previous drafts of SKOS included skos:prefSymbol and skos:altSymbol and
> the
> issue is if they should be dropped.
> I am here giving use cases in support of these elements.
> Of course is they will be dropped then we have to use skos:altLabel to
> represent those elements.
> 
> 1) If we take the AGROVOC thesaurus: it contains all the chemical
> elements,
> which are currently in agrovoc 60, but could be more than 120...
> Example: Phosphorus is a term with a specific termcode (5804). Another
> term
> exists with code 13015 which is "P (symbol)", and these are related by
> the
> USE/UF relationship. BUT, if we could have skos:altSymbol, we would not
> need
> to use skos:altLabel and we would not need to indicate "(symbol)" in
> the
> agrovoc term.
> Also: this symbol in general is the same for all languages except for
> non-latin alphabets. But these could be represented with the
> skos:altSymbol:
> in this case we may need to assign a language to the skos:altSymbol. If
> we
> decide not, then we could treat the different languages for symbols as
> skos:altLabel.
> 
> P (symbol) (EN)
> P (symbole) (FR)
> P (símbolo) (ES)
> 磷元素 (ZH)
> P (símbolo) (PT)
> P (CS)
> リン (JA)
> พี (สัญลักษณ์) (TH)
> p (chemická značka) (SK)
> P (SYMBOL) (DE)
> P (vegyjel) (HU)
> P (symbol) (PL)
> P (simbolo) (IT)
> पी फास्फोरस का (चिन्ह) (HI)
> 
> Below the full list of terms in agrovoc indicated as symbols.
> 
> 2) AGROVOC contains chemical compunds such as "1,2-Dibromoethane",
> which has
> the formula BrCH2CH2Br. This formula may be represented as
> skos:prefSymbol.
> Chemicals may also have associated other codes coming from
> internationally
> recognized standards, such as the CAS Number: 106-93-4.... This can be
> skos:altSymbol, but in this case we would need an attribute to indicate
> which
> skos:altSymbol it is (CAS or others...)... Otherwise again
> skos:altLabel
> could be used.
> Number of these terms in agrovoc: more than 100.
> 
> 3) Other substances such as ASPARAGINE may have symbols:
> di-N-acetylchitobiosyl poly(L-asparagine) (source MESH Thesaurus)
> 
> 4) The food component ontology (or repository) in FAO has food
> substances
> with symbols:  phosphatidyl choline  --> symbol:  CHLNP
> dodecanoic acid. Saturated fatty acid with 12 carbons  --> symbol:
> F12D0
> Note these are not a termcodes, but a international symbols given to
> the
> substance. These are indipendent from the language. May have
> alternative
> symbols in other systems.
> 
> 5) Vitamins also have symbols: around 20 in agrovoc. Some also in MESH.
> E.g.
> alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate --> vitamin E-TPGS
> 
> 6) The tag skos:prefSymbol and skos:altSymbol may also be used to
> represent
> codes referred to the same concept in other systems (specifying the
> source
> somehow).
> 
> 7) Geographical names may have associated symbols: ALBANIA has ISO
> country
> code (alpha-3-code) -->  ALB
> But also here we may need to specify an attribute for the code (ISO3
> ISO2 UN,
> etc)
> 
> 8) Currency Symbols:  Q for guatemala, $ for USA, EUR or € for european
> countries (we may use both skos:prefSymbol and skos:altSymbol).
> 
> 
> So, based on this I support the idea to keep them. Sorry for not having
> provided before use cases.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards
> Margherita
> 
> 
> ------------------
> List of terms (symbols) from agrovoc
> 
> Ag (symbol)   (EN)
> Al (symbol)   (EN)
> Am (symbol)   (EN)
> As (symbol)   (EN)
> Asymbolus analis   (EN)
> Asymbolus spp   (EN)
> Asymbolus vincenti   (EN)
> B (symbol)   (EN)
> Ba (symbol)   (EN)
> Be (symbol)   (EN)
> Bi (symbol)   (EN)
> Br (symbol)   (EN)
> C (symbol)   (EN)
> Ca (symbol)   (EN)
> Cd (symbol)   (EN)
> Cl (symbol)   (EN)
> Cm (symbol)   (EN)
> Co (symbol)   (EN)
> Cr (symbol)   (EN)
> Cs (symbol)   (EN)
> Cu (symbol)   (EN)
> F (symbol)   (EN)
> Fe (symbol)   (EN)
> H (symbol)   (EN)
> Hg (symbol)   (EN)
> I (symbol)   (EN)
> K (symbol)   (EN)
> Li (symbol)   (EN)
> Mg (symbol)   (EN)
> Mn (symbol)   (EN)
> Mo (symbol)   (EN)
> N (symbol)   (EN)
> Na (symbol)   (EN)
> Ni (symbol)   (EN)
> Np (symbol)   (EN)
> O (symbol)   (EN)
> P (symbol)   (EN)
> Pb (symbol)   (EN)
> Pt (symbol)   (EN)
> Pu (symbol)   (EN)
> Ra (symbol)   (EN)
> Rb (symbol)   (EN)
> S (symbol)   (EN)
> Sb (symbol)   (EN)
> Se (symbol)   (EN)
> Si (symbol)   (EN)
> Sisymbrium   (EN)
> Sn (symbol)   (EN)
> Sr (symbol)   (EN)
> Symbionts   (EN)
> Symbiosis   (EN)
> Tc (symbol)   (EN)
> Te (symbol)   (EN)
> Tl (symbol)   (EN)
> U (symbol)   (EN)
> V (symbol)   (EN)
> W (symbol)   (EN)
> Zn (symbol)   (EN)
> Zr (symbol)   (EN)
> ------------------------------

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