Dan,
As we were discussing in Oxford, there may be a case for having a number
of instantiations of the CRM for different specific purposes. The
particular purpose I am thinking of is a CRM implementation which
supports Linked Data usage. (Having that implementation doesn't stop us
having other, more human-friendly, implementations - potentially even
other RDF implementations.)
For this purpose, it is crucially important that the URLs representing
CRM classes and properties are stable over time. Including semantic
(and, as Martin observes, language-specific) text as part of the
identifier is a hostage to fortune which we could do without. As Barry
comments, we can put the label into the RDF so that the explanation is
there if required. In fact, doing it this way allows us to include
translations of the labels in multiple languages, which would actually
increase the utility of the CRM from an international perspective.
The Linked Data manifestation of the CRM is primarily designed to be
produced and consumed by machine processes, and we shouldn't be
concerned about how "obvious" it looks to human observers. We can
develop software tools to provide tooltip explanations etc. where they
are required.
Richard
On 13/02/2015 10:55, Dan Matei wrote:
As a (daily) user of CRM, I'm very much against criptic labels. I'm too old to
remember the numbers in labels :-(
Dan
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From: martin <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:38:15 +0200
That is an interesting comment. Anyway, the labels are in a European
language.
We have proposed in the past that the generic RDF property labels are
the E / P numbers,
and that language labels are display properties. That's why we have the
E/ P numbers,
which are as robust as anything in this world can be, but pople voted not to
have naked E-Pnumbers in RDFS. So, we cannot control ISO. We can
declare to be smarter than ISO and stick at will to our labels. Or, we
finally admit that
user tools should have the ability to display the language lables, and
not the generic ones,
and change the master RDF.
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