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- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:48:12 -0500 (EST)
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ISSUE-189: Unicity of prefLabel rule (SKOS Primer) http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/189 Raised by: Antoine Isaac On product: SKOS Raised by Magnus Knuth in [1]: * in the SKOS Primer (2008-08-29) Chap. 2.2.1 last sentence should tell "..., it is therefore recommended that no two concepts in the same KOS be given the same preferred lexical label --in any two given languages-- __in any given language__." (might be a typo) Well, we cannot apply this recommendation, since we sometimes have different concepts with identical prefLabel, e.g. ex:football_(sport) and ex:football_(ball) both having skos:prefLabel "football", i.e. we don't want to disambiguate these concept by their prefLabel but by further characteristics as their definition or altLabel. Same would apply, when you collect alternative definitions for a term resulting in different concepts, e.g. the medical term "sepsis" is defined in various variants from "inflammatory infection" over "blood poisoning" to "infection with organ dysfunction", and medics use it in such various manner. So please leave it an informal recommendation. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2009Feb/0014.html
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