- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:27:28 +0100
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Cc: SWD Working SWD <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Dear Al Thank you for your comments [1]: """ Re Section 5. Lexical Labels The motivation for the Integrity Conditions listed in section 5.4. (S13 and S14) is not clear. They appear to be overly constraining and badly aligned with the architecture of distributed systems, where labels could come from different sources and authors, and where redundancies may arise. Why is it okay to have no preferred label defined, but it is a clash to have the same string as preferred and alternate label? A SKOS application should be able to deal with situations where there are competing preferred labels, or one label being redundantly defined as “preferred” and “alternate”. These situations should not make the SKOS application fail. """ ------------------------------------------------------------- The desire to provide a single value of preferred label is motivated by requirement R-CompatibilityWithISO2788 [2] and thesaurus guidelines provided the main motivation for the uniqueness of prefLabels. We also suggest that the intuitive interpretation of "preferred" implies a single choice. Note that the integrity conditions specify "no more than one preferred label per language [tag]", thus custom language tags /could/ be used in situations where competing preferred labels were needed. Note also that the presence of multiple preferred labels does not necessarily lead to *failure* of a SKOS application. Section 1.4 of the Reference document provides further discussion relating to the use of integrity conditions in SKOS. The Working Group propose to make no change in response to your comment. Can you live with this? Cheers, Sean Bechhofer Alistair Miles [ISSUE-179] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/179 [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Oct/0063.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-ucr#R-CompatibilityWithISO2788 -- 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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