Re: MiniSKOS proposal: add Topic, an equivalentClass to skos:Concept, and relate schema properties to it.

+1 to addition of Topic type to fill the gap, and let those who need SKOS
features use SKOS directly.

Steph.


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:19 AM, jean delahousse
<delahousse.jean@gmail.com>wrote:

> +1
> It's clean, simple, and creates a bridge between schema.org and other
> vocabularies
> Jean
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> 2013/11/20 Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
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>> Sounds good in general, but I think we should pause for thought before
>> adding Topic as an expected type for targetUrl (in
>> http://schema.org/AlignmentObject).
>>
>> As well as targetUrl, the Alignment object also has targetName and
>> targetDescription properties, which would equate to the name and
>> description of the Topic to which there is an educational alignment.
>> Allowing Topic as an expected type for targetUrl might end up with us
>> seeing the targetUrl being given as a complex item comprising the name,
>> description and/or url. Messy. It might be preferable to add the property
>> target to AlignmentObject and give it the expected type Topic. Publishers
>> could then choose whether to use the target property with a value that
>> comprises name, description and url, or to markup the targetName,
>> targetDescription and targetUrl as direct properties of the AlignmentObject
>>
>> I shall ask my colleagues on the LRMI lists what they think.
>>
>> Phil
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>>
>> On 19/11/13 20:22, Dan Brickley wrote:
>>
>> "MiniSKOS proposal for schema.org"
>>
>> This is a greatly minimized proposal for Schema.org <-> SKOS
>> integration. I didn't make a wiki entry for it yet; maybe it's best to
>> add it to http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SKOS than make a separate
>> writeup?
>>
>> Essentially, we add one type 'Topic', we say it is an equivalent class
>> to W3C skos:Concept, and then we focus on identifying properties inschema.org where it can be an expected type.
>>
>> RDFS: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webschema/file/default/schema.org/ext/miniskos.html
>> Test build: http://sdo-wip1.appspot.com/Topic
>>
>> We add a range of 'Topic' to these properties: about,
>> occupationalCategory, targetUrl, applicationCategory,
>> applicationSubCategory, category, mentions, serviceType.
>>
>> This would be our way of saying that (sometimes) the values of these
>> properties would take links into existing controlled vocabularies,
>> typically but not necessarily documented using W3C SKOS in (hopefully)
>> RDFa. By doing so, we make it easier for schema.org data to use
>> hierarchies of controlled codes, alternate and multilingual labels,
>> and links between such vocabularies.
>>
>> All other information about a Topic would be expressed innon-schema.org vocabulary (broader etc.), most likely SKOS.
>>
>> Dan
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