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

Done!

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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