ISSUE-135

Last Call Comment: rdfs:label

State:
CLOSED
Product:
SKOS
Raised by:
Alistair Miles
Opened on:
2008-09-30
Description:
Raised by Michael Schneider in [1]:

"""
What is the rational for making SKOS labeling properties sub properties of
rdfs:label (besides the common name)? Note that rdfs:Label is an
owl:AnnotationProperty in OWL. While in OWL Full, annotation properties can have
sub properties, it looks at least a little odd (though formally fine) to have a
data property be a sub property of an annotation property. If no strong reasons
talk against, I suggest to /not/ have sub properties of rdfs:label.
"""

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Sep/0044.html
Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-09-30)
  2. Re: Review of the 'SKOS Reference' Last Call Working Draft (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-09-30)
  3. Status of LC comments (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-10-06)
  4. meeting record: 2008-10-07 SWD WG (from swick@w3.org on 2008-10-07)
  5. RE: Status of LC Comments ISSUE-135 (from jeremy@topquadrant.com on 2008-11-10)
  6. ISSUE-135: SKOS labels as annotations? (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-11-14)
  7. meeting record: 2008-11-18 SWD WG telecon (from swick@w3.org on 2008-11-18)
  8. [ALL] agenda 25 Nov telecon - 1600 UTC (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-11-25)
  9. ISSUE-135 draft response (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-11-25)
  10. Re: [ALL] agenda 25 Nov telecon - 1600 UTC (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-11-25)
  11. meeting record: 2008-11-25 SWD WG telecon (from swick@w3.org on 2008-11-25)
  12. Re: ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-02)
  13. [SKOS] Update on Last Call Comments (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-02)
  14. meeting record: 2008-12-02 SWD WG telecon (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-12-03)
  15. RE: ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from schneid@fzi.de on 2008-12-04)
  16. Re: ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-09)
  17. Re: ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-09)
  18. RE: ISSUE-135: Last Call Comment: rdfs:label (from schneid@fzi.de on 2008-12-10)

Related notes:

2008-11-10: ACTION: Accept

2008-12-02: CHANGE-TYPE: Substantive

2008-12-02: RESOLUTION: In the current schema, these [skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel, skos:hiddenLabel] are asserted to be instances of owl:DatatypeProperty. On reflection, we feel that it is more appropriate to type these as owl:AnnotationProperty and retain the subproperty relationship. Although this will still violate an OWL DL constriant (no subproperty relationships are allowed on annotation properties), it is likely that changes in OWL 2 will allow relationships between annotation properties. It may then be possible to represent SKOS in terms which conform to OWL 2 with minimal changes. The Working Group thus propose to change the type of the SKOS labelling properties to owl:AnnotationProperty, and *postpone* this issue (indicating that it may merit further consideration in the future).

2008-12-11: CHANGE-TYPE: Editorial

2008-12-15: COMMENTER-RESPONSE: Accept