Re: SKOS for schema.org proposal for discussion

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:

> As someone who is brand new to SKOS (in the last 8 months or so).. I will
> give you my personal opinion, which is in agreement with Jean-Pierre...
>

Do you represent the audience that schema.org is after? From what I know
about you (mostly from this mailing list) I think you have more knowledge
and interest about KR than the average developer :) especially being a
freebase contributor. Is "SKOS" that popular among web developers who build
blog sites or e-commerce site? I don't think so. IMO, "SkosConcept" will
look too esoteric to be used by regular site builders/developers, unless
they really care to look for the definition of SKOS on wikipedia (something
most people won't do).

What do people think of what Martin suggested earlier: TerminologyConcept?
Or simply Topic? Topic is a bit more restrictive, but I think is more
appealing/intuitive for newbies than SkosConcept.

Steph.


>
> I want to see SkosConcept in Schema.org "as-is".  I have never been
> confused about the meaning of it, once I read the initial description on
> Wikipedia about SkosConcept.
>
> Why does the proposal even suggest a "mapping" ?  Why not just use the
> same label on both sides ?  "SkosConcept" = "skos:Concept"
>
> In Freebase, we decided to use a mapping where we have a our existing
> topics Typed as a "Vocabulary Equivalent Topic" that are mapped to
> "Equivalent SKOS Concepts" ... like the Topic of "Painting" that is a form
> of Artwork that has a Broader Concept of "Graphic arts" so:
> https://www.freebase.com/m/05qdh#/base/skosbase/vocabulary_equivalent_topic
>
> Before, we just had the label as "Equivalent Topic" ... and it didn't make
> sense... It was very confusing to me and others and I didn't know on one
> end if I was still looking at the SKOS Concept... or the Equivalent Topic
> for something else or another Domain Equivalent Topic.  We ultimately
> decided to make it less confusing and we renamed to use the term
> "Equivalent SKOS Concept".. because as Jean-Pierre notes, that SKOS Concept
> already had the full intended meaning and was already simple and well
> defined and used in the World Wide Web.
>
> So, I think Guha has a concern, but I do not share his concern, even as
> someone who is just newly exposed to SKOS.
>
> --
> -Thad
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>



-- 
Steph.