Re: MiniSKOS update: back to "Topic" (but thanks for trying out the ConceptCode idea)

"Am I the only one to be confused by ConceptCode and waiting for the
aha moment?"

You are not. I have had a number of 1:1 discussions with people who
have also expressed skepticism and confusion about ConceptCode.

While I still find it appealing, and it was worth exploring the idea,
... I now retract the proposal and revert MiniSKOS to use the word
"Topic". We had a schema.org partners call last night and that
approach seems to have general agreement there too.

We will never find perfect terminology. "Topic" grows more awkward the
further you get from classic bibliographic description, e.g. Job codes
etc., but for key scenarios it is very natural, and I've not
encountered the kind of "huh, sorry, I just don't get it!!" reaction
that "ConceptCode" invokes for some people.

I liked the idea of ConceptCode but Topic seems closer to rough
consensus. Can we now go back to the stage where everyone was saying
"great, +1, let's do it!" ?

I'll update the RDFS and test builds today. We still have the
outstanding issue of LRMI's targetUrl construction and a lack of
candidate examples for use on the schema.org site, but otherwise I
feel this is in good shape. Who can offer some simple examples?

cheers,

Dan

Received on Friday, 22 November 2013 08:09:20 UTC