Re: [SKOS] editorial comment: basic version info in RDF documents?

Antoine,

will take care of that, thanks (we are currently in discussion with the
webmaster how to do that exactly, because we are changing documents in,
essentially, /TR space, but let that be my problem for now:-)

Cheers

Ivan

Antoine Isaac wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> 
>> I am happy to add it to the text and update it on the site, but I would
>> prefer if you gave me the text to be added...
> 
> 
> OK, let's do that!
> 
> ==== http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos.rdf and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
> 
> At the top of the current RDF documents there is already a comment,
> which we could change in the following way (I'm just quoting the
> relevant sentence):
> 
> [
> This schema represents a formalisation of a subset of the semantic
> conditions    described in the SKOS Reference document.
> ]
> ->
> [
> This schema represents a formalisation of a subset of the semantic
> conditions    described in the SKOS Reference document dated 18 August
> 2009, accessible at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/.
> ]
> 
> ==== http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-xl.rdf :
> 
> I suggest to add on line two (below the rdf:RDF opening tag) the
> following comment:
> [
> <!--
> This schema represents a formalisation of the semantic conditions   
> described in the SKOS eXtension for Labels (SKOS-XL) appendix of the
> SKOS Reference document dated 18 August 2009, accessible at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/#xl. XML comments
> of the form Sn are used to    indicate the semantic conditions that are
> being expressed.            A number of semantic conditions are *not*
> expressed formally in this schema. These are:
>       S51
>    S55
>    S56
>    S57
>       For the conditions listed above, rdfs:comments are used to
> indicate the conditions.
> -->
> ]
> 
> ====
> 
> Does this seem ok?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Antoine
> 
> 
>>
>> Antoine Isaac wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I got this comment from my colleague Lourens van der Meij:
>>>
>>>> And I think it would help if skos.rdf contained some more information
>>>> that it indeed is a new version that
>>>> reflects the standard (I suppose there used to be another version up
>>>> to a couple of months ago.)
>>>
>>> I think this makes sense: we (and the previous SW Best Practices group)
>>> have issued quite some versions of the RDF files, which are now
>>> circulating here and there. It would be nice to allow developpers to
>>> identify for sure that what they get is the right vocabulary.
>>> Would it be possible to add some editorial note to all our RDF
>>> vocabulaires [1,2,3] saying that these are representing our Aug 18
>>> version?
>>>
>>> Note that I'm not asking for a complete versioning system: just an
>>> XML-commented text (using <!-- -->) pointing to the time-stamped HTML
>>> documents on the W3C site would be enough as a basic solution, I think.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos.rdf
>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-xl.rdf [3]
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
>>>
>>
> 

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