ISSUE-180

Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class

State:
POSTPONED
Product:
SKOS
Raised by:
Everyone
Opened on:
2008-10-08
Description:
Raised by Al Gilman on behalf of PFWG in [1]:

"""
Re Appendix A.2. The skosxl:Label Class

The new “label framework” goes in the right direction, but does not  
go far enough.

The skos:hiddenLabel property is considered to be useful for  
accessibility-related use cases (where misspellings may occur).

The new properties skos:prefLabel and skos:altLabel  conflict with  
dc:title.  In fact, these properties co-exist in examples of the SKOS  
reference.  Guidance is missing as to when to use the skos-defined  
label properties, and when to use dc:title.

The label framework should explicitly cater for non-textual labels in  
image, audio or video format, and as provided in other markup  
languages such as MathML.  Labels in other modalities may serve as  
alternate labels in accessibility-related use cases.  SKOS should  
provide guidance as to how to provide images, audio and video content  
as alternate labels.  Currently, icons are being standardized as  
representing concepts in an upcoming multi-part standard ISO/IEC  
11581, developed by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC35.  SKOS should be able to  
specify these icons as part of a knowledge organization system.

Also, the most common label relationships should be pre-defined by  
SKOS.  This should include: skos:acronym, skos:pronunciation.
"""

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Oct/0063.html
Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-10-08)
  2. Re: SKOS comment (s) from PFWG (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-10-08)
  3. Re: ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-10-23)
  4. Re: ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-10-23)
  5. Re: ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-10-23)
  6. proposal to resolve remaining no change and editorial comments (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-10-23)
  7. Re: proposal to resolve remaining no change and editorial comments (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-10-23)
  8. Re: ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-10-24)
  9. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Nov 04 2008 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-11-04)
  10. ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (part 1) (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-11-06)
  11. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Nov 04 2008 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-11-04)
  12. ISSUE-180: Last Call Comment: PFWG: skosxl:Label class (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-11-06)
  13. [SKOS] Update on Last Call Comments (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-02)

Related notes:

2008-11-10: ACTION: Accept

2008-11-10: CHANGE-TYPE: None

2008-11-10: RESOLUTION: We recognise these are important requirements, and would like to do all we can to help develop common solutions. We have considered expanding the scope of the current work to include standardised support for labels in other modalities (see e.g. [ISSUE-76]), however we have to balance the time this would take against the benefit to the community of having a more limited SKOS standard sooner. We are, however, committed to ensuring that SKOS is a sound basis for 3rd party extensions, to meet a diversity of more specialised requirements. We believe the XL framework, as currently specified, can serve as a basis for extensions that support labeling in a variety of modalities, and extensions that support a variety of label relationships, and would be happy to provide support and suggestions to the PFWG in the development of such extensions. We therefore propose to postpone this issue, making no change to the current specification. Are you able to live with this?

2008-12-15: Postponed with no response from commenter.

2008-12-16: COMMENTER-RESPONSE: None