#2 - Although the domain of skos:prefLabel is unspecified, the property
does have a semantic definition and some "partner" properties (altLabel
and hiddenLabel) that have meaning. The documentation says:
"The preferred and alternative labels are useful when generating or
creating human-readable representations of a knowledge organization
system. These labels provide the strongest clues as to the meaning of a
SKOS concept."
This, to me, is quite different from the use of "value" in DCAM, and the
fact that the term "label" is used here is significant. I don't think
the two can be considered equivalent.
kc
Thomas Baker wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> David Wood suggests two changes in how DCAM constructs are
> represented in RDF [1]:
>
> 1. Instead of using dcam:memberOf to relate a value to a
> DCAM Vocabulary Encoding Scheme [1, section 4.5], David
> suggests using skos:inScheme [2].
>
> 2. Instead of using rdf:value to relate a value to a
> DCAM Value String [1, section 4.6], David suggests using
> skos:prefLabel [3].
>
> Some first reactions:
>
> -- The domain of skos:inScheme was left unspecified in
> order to provide the flexibility to extend a concept scheme
> with classes of resource other than skos:Concept (i.e., the use
> of skos:inScheme does not imply that the subject is a concept).
> Also, skos:inScheme is better-known than dcam:memberOf.
> So #1 seems like a sound idea.
>
> -- The domain of skos:prefLabel was also left unspecified [3],
> so its use does not imply that the subject of a statement is
> a SKOS concept. On the other hand, I believe the
> correct use of rdf:value has long been unclear.
> So #2 seems like a good idea too, though as part of such a
> change we would need to understand better where the problem
> with rdf:value lies.
>
> Tom (at DC-2009, Seoul)
>
> [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf/#sect-4
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L2805
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L1541
>
>
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