Re: ISSUE-153 draft response

Hi Sean, I support this proposal.

Regards,

Alistair

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:10:58PM +0000, Sean Bechhofer wrote:
>
>
> All,
>
> Here's a draft response to Tim on [ISSUE-153].
> Let me know what you think. Note *this is just a draft, not the actual 
> response* -- I'll wait for feedback from the WG before replying formally.
>
> 	Sean
>
> Dear Tim,
>
> thanks for your comment [1]:
>
> Reading http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/ ,
>
> I sympathize very much with the people who want to keep the namespace
> the same.
>   We're trying to get critical mass and cutting some of the data off
> and letting it float away by itself it is costly. I don't generate
> skos myself, but I have come across it.
>
> Some people think it's important. I strongly suggest giving new names
> (within the same namespace)  to the five things which have changed,
> especially if they're rather obscure.
>
> You have of course to evaluate the damage if you were to just make an
> erratum to skos 2005.
>
> Did you in 2005 make a say about the change rules for skos 2005
> I suggest to use new names and not change the namespace.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This was an issue that has been debated at length in the WG (see for  
> example [2,3]) and the WG have seen merit in both options. The Last Call 
> Draft proposes a new namespace. Recent discussions [4] have seen the WG 
> return to a position where the SKOS vocabulary would be defined using the 
> existing namespace URI.
>
> We do not intend to change the property names of the key semantic  
> relations skos:broader and skos:narrower, as it was felt that this would 
> effectively negate any benefit from retaining the namespace. This will, 
> however, result in a change to the semantics of these relationships. 
> However, as highlighted in [5], in principle applications should be able 
> to make use of the machine-readable published schema. There may be impact 
> on previously published vocabularies, which users will need to be made 
> aware of. Note also that "old" vocabulary (for example skos:subject) will 
> no longer be defined in the skos namespace. Historical versions of the 
> schema will, however still be made available (although not at the SKOS  
> namespace URI).
>
> Our proposal is thus to revert to the original SKOS namespace URI, and to 
> add an appendix to the reference document (see [6]) discussing the issues 
> above.
>
> Are you happy with this solution?
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Sean Bechhofer
> 	Alistair Miles
>
> [ISSUE-153] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/153
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Sep/0084.html
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Apr/0032.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SkosDesign/RdfSchema
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2008/10/07-swd-minutes.html#item05
> [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Oct/0036.html
> [6] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/reference/20081001/#app-namespace
>
>
> --
> Sean Bechhofer
> School of Computer Science
> University of Manchester
> sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk
> http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
>
>
>
>

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