2008/1/24, Richard Cyganiak:
We couldn't find any indication in the SKOS documentation that
skos:subject should be used *only* for creative works. I also asked on
the SKOS list if this was okay, and the consensus seemed to be that
it's a bit strange, but not illegal.
Well, there is no domain
Hmmm, re-reading some of the SKOS docs I get the feeling that
skos:subject is indeed appropriate only for documents:
http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide/#secindexing
| These properties [including skos:subject] can be used for subject
| indexing of information resources on the web. Here
Fred,
On 24 Jan 2008, at 13:31, Frederick Giasson wrote:
What is a category for DBPedia?
Answering to this question will tell you if it is the good thing to
do or not.
If one is answering that it is a Wikipedia Category, then I will
answer that it is not the good thing to do in my
Hi Masahide,
If one ask me why? I would answer that it is become many of the
wikipedia categories are classes and in such a case why not defining
them as a Class, and not a category (that could be considered a class
for some sense of that class)?
Wikipedia category is a
Hi Richard,
No. The Wikipedia category system is simply not appropriate as a class
hierarchy. That's not a bug; it serves its purpose well, and the
Wikipedia community likes it that way. It is essentially a tagging
system, where tags themselves can be tagged. See [1] for an in-depth
Hi Richard
See also the other thread about deprecation of skos:subject (I suggest
to close the current thread and follow-up on that one to avoid parallel
discussions)
Richard Cyganiak a écrit :
Hmmm, re-reading some of the SKOS docs I get the feeling that
skos:subject is indeed appropriate
Hi Richard,
In fact, Wikipedia categories can be many things: named entities,
concepts, relations, (something else?)
They certainly all are skos:Concepts. SKOS was created for the purpose
of representing exactly that sort of things -- thesauri, taxonomies,
and tagging schemes -- in RDF.
