Re: SKOS for schema.org proposal for discussion

Reviving the thread ...

Schema.org already uses Enumeration in the unordered sense. So, could you
live with EnumConcept?

guha


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Interesting that the topic has been stalled for one week, especially in
> the middle of a discussion on naming ;-). It looks like it will end like
> earlier SKOS threads, which also lead to discussion on the general strategy
> for schema.org or this list [1]...
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> OK, if applications need to publish or consume concept-level data, we can
> point them to RDFa+SKOS. But if some here prefers to use the schema.orgnamespace, we can't really say it's wrong. Especially when better-known
> ontologies have been already integrated into Schema.org. The discussion
> should have happened for FOAF and GR. And if it happens now, still, it
> should have a broader scope than SKOS!
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> I also hear the point that relying on SKOS-like data is less good than
> trying to categorize 'concepts', so that they fit various schema.orgclasses (Person, Place, etc). Again this debate has already happened, in a
> way.
> If a good, clean ontologization of thesauri, folksonomies etc was possible
> (ie., if people had resources for it), then there wouldn't be any need for
> SKOS in the first place, in the Semantic Web / Linked Data ecosystem.
> Besides the logical pitfalls of shoehorning SKOS data into OWL ontologies,
> there's the problem of raising the barrier to the use of data. A range of
> simple applications like the one Stéphanes has presented don't need
> fully-fleged ontologies, or, here, fine-grained instances of schema.org's
> 'concrete' classes.
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> To come back to the naming...
> SKOS was partly designed to reflect the shift to 'traditional' term-based
> knowledge organization systems to more 'conceptual' ones (a shift
> examplified by more recent thesaurus standard). As Jean-Pierre said, the
> whole point is having string and terms masquerading as something more
> structured. Having skos:Concept mapped to a schema:Term or anything that
> prominently feature 'term' will be harmful in this respect.
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> "Topic" may be counter-intuitive for all the cases when the resources are
> not used as subjects of documents.
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> Using 'concept' does not seem so harmful to me, in fact. I don't see how
> the general schema.org users could possibly live and breath by early DL
> work and CommonKADS...
> 'EnumConcept' carries a meaning of ordered listing I'm not comfortable
> with. But if Enumeration has been already used without that sense in
> schema.org, it may well fly.
>
> If you are really desperate for another one, how about 'category'?
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/public-vocabs/2013Jan/**
> 0033.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2013Jan/0033.html>
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