- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:14:14 -0400
- To: "SWD Working Group" <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Jon Phipps and I have been invited to speak briefly about SKOS at an NKOS/CENDI meeting on Thursday [1]. The conveners are particularly interested in a summary of the changes to SKOS. I've take a very rough stab [2] at this, and would be interested in any feedback you may have on whether I've missed some big/small changes and/or mis-characterized them. I couldn't seem to find a summary of the recent changes to SKOS; if one exists please let me know! //Ed PS. Along the way I hacked together a little python utility called vdiff [3] for comparing vocabulary namespaces. It's pretty simplistic and the output is somewhat overwhelming [4], but it helped me get a handle on the changes to SKOS at least. If I had more time, or there was more interest it would be nice to adapt it to possibly use some more fully baked ideas [5,6]. Although vdiff is quite different in that it doesn't compare distinct resources, it compares vocabulary namespaces by guessing that say http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept is the same as http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos#Concept. It's not clear to me how much this situation actually happens in practice... [1] http://cendievents.infointl.com/kos_workshop_091108/ [2] http://inkdroid.org/bzr/vdiff/example/skos-changes-summary.txt [3] http://inkdroid.org/bzr/vdiff/vdiff [4] http://inkdroid.org/bzr/vdiff/example/skos-diff.txt [5] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Diff [6] http://vocab.org/changeset/schema
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