RE: Should we adopt SKOS? from Ray Denenberg on 2013-01-09 (public-vocabs@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:24:19 -0500
To: "'Young,Jeff $OR$'" <jyoung@oclc.org>, "'Dan Brickley'" <danbri@danbri.org>, "'Jason Douglas'" <jasondouglas@google.com>
Cc: "'W3C Web Schemas Task Force'" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, "'Wallis,Richard'" <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>, "'Jamie Taylor'" <jamietaylor@google.com>, "'Guha'" <guha@google.com>, "'Thad Guidry'" <thadguidry@gmail.com>
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Not that strange. 

 

MADS uses Authority because that's what it is, an Authority. It's narrower than a Concept. It is used to refer to things are "authoritative":  authoritative form for a personal name, authoritative form for a  place, etc. 

 

--Ray

 

From: Young,Jeff (OR) [mailto:jyoung@oclc.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:20 PM
To: Dan Brickley; Jason Douglas
Cc: W3C Web Schemas Task Force; Wallis,Richard; Jamie Taylor; Guha; Thad Guidry
Subject: RE: Should we adopt SKOS?

 

In the MADS ontology, they used the term “Authority” in place of “Concept”. 

 

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/v1.html#Authority

 

Strange but true.

 

Jeff

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