[open-bibliography] New BNB sample data available

Mon Feb 7 16:53:20 UTC 2011

In SKOS, different communities can have their own prefLabels for the
same concept like so:

mesh:abc a skos:Concept ;
	skos:inScheme mesh:scheme ;
	skos:exactMatch lcsh:xyz ;
	skos:prefLabel "the established MESH heading" .

lcsh:xyz a skos:Concept ;
	skos:inScheme lcsh:scheme ;
	skos:exactMatch mesh:abc ;
	skos:prefLabel "the established LCSH heading" .

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lld-request at w3.org [mailto:public-lld-request at w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 11:02 AM
> To: Simon Spero
> Cc: open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org; public-lld
> Subject: Re: New BNB sample data available
> 
> Quoting Simon Spero <sesuncedu at gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> > In regards to the requirement that preflabel must be unique within a
> scheme,
> > this is an essential property of controlled vocabularies (ambiguity
> > control).  See e.g. NISO Z39.19 section 5.3.1 (not sure what the
> paragraph
> > number is in 2788, but it's roughly the same wording).
> >
> > It's been LC policy since 1876 :-) [Cutter rule # 173].
> 
> Right, but the context of that rule is a thesaurus or controlled
> vocabulary in which the "prefLabel" *is* the identifier for the
> "thing." There were no URIs in 1876. FRAD continues this by
> essentially having two identifiers -- one for machines (URI) and one
> for humans (prefLabel). This makes sense, to some degree, because you
> do want to communicate unambiguously to both machines and humans, but
> I'm not totally convinced that prefLabel is the way to do that, since
> different communities are likely to favor different prefLabels. (Think
> of the difference between MeSH subject headings and LCSH subject
> headings for the same thing.) Communicating to humans unambiguously is
> devilishly hard, as we know.
> 
> kc
> 
> >
> > Simon
> > p.s.
> > Amusingly, Z39.19 uses the term polyseme polysemously to mean
> homonym.
> > Lexical semantics meta!
> > On Feb 6, 2011 8:57 AM, "Antoine Isaac" <aisaac at few.vu.nl> wrote:
> >
> 
> 
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