- From: Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:44:35 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- CC: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> http://schema.org/name is currently defined as 'The name of the item.' > (you might argue it should say 'a name' not 'the name', but setting > that aside for now) Yes set it aside into the 'tweaks we need to do in the next update' pile. > To the extent concepts have names at all, I'd > guess their preferred labels would all be names. Or at least close enough for a mapping to schema:name. > > If not, i.e. if every preferred label of a concept is also a name, and > if we still want to maintain an explicit notion of 'preferred label', > then this seems a good candidate for describing as a sub-property / > super-property relationship. We've used that notion already in the > Action design, to relate focussed action-type-specific properties to > the broader, vaguer properties on http://schema.org/Action. It might > help here too (even though schema.org term navigation doesn't offer > any support for sub-property links yet). I think this makes sense - a preferred label/name is still a name. Also in multilingual world a thing (and a concept) can not only have several names, it can have several preferred names - potentially one per language. ~Richard.
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