ISSUE-41 (alt/alternative): use of skos:altLabel or dcterms:alternative [Registered Organization Vocabulary]

ISSUE-41 (alt/alternative): use of skos:altLabel or dcterms:alternative [Registered Organization Vocabulary]

http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/41

Raised by: Phil Archer
On product: Registered Organization Vocabulary

In his comments [1], Richard suggests using skos:prefLabel and skoa:altlabel for what is currently rov:legalName and dcterms:alternative.

The reasoning is sound in that this is inline with ORG. However, some jurisdictions, such as Canada, where a company can have more than one legal name. They're not translations and there is no order of preference. We'd have to allow multiple skos:preLabel properties which isn't good.

Hence ity is questionable whether it is appropriate to define rov:lagelName as a sub property of skos:prefLabel.

Richard then suggests using skos:altLabel rather than dcterms:alternative. This again seems logical but given the above, so we want to suggest the use of skos:altLabel in the absence of skos:prefLabel?

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/2012Oct/0101.html

Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:54:04 UTC