Re: using SKOS for controlled values for controlled vocabulary

Dr. Sowa,

I agree, that is what the document says..   There seems to be preference to the usage of  "Collections" rather than altLabels. 

But there is some references to usage " list of values ", if call them so,  in that document  there...  as lables and Collections.  

All of that looks primitive, is you compare to traditional programming languages .. ( like Java..) .. but then this is SemWeb technology.  

I will leave up to the SKOS work group experts to figure out the rest..
Pavithra 



--- On Sat, 10/9/10, John F. Sowa <sowa@bestweb.net> wrote:

From: John F. Sowa <sowa@bestweb.net>
Subject: Re: using SKOS for controlled values for controlled vocabulary
To: "Pavithra" <pavithra_kenjige@yahoo.com>
Cc: "KenLaskey" <klaskey@mitre.org>, "William Waites" <ww@styx.org>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>, ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010, 4:49 PM

On 10/9/2010 4:40 PM, Pavithra wrote:
> It is also possible to use |skos:altLabel| to represent cases of /upward
> posting/ [ISO-2788
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/#ISO2788>]. That
> is, when a concept aggregates more-specialized notions that are not
> explicitly introduced as concepts in the considered KOS:
>
> ex:rocks rdf:type skos:Concept;
>    skos:prefLabel "rocks"@en;
>    skos:altLabel "basalt"@en;
>    skos:altLabel "granite"@en;
>    skos:altLabel "slate"@en

Bigus Dealus Gloriosus.

Is that supposed to be *simple* ?

Perhaps it is for somebody who has been tortured by RDF and OWL.

John