Re: TMCL: tmcl:see-also vs. rdfs:seeAlso

I think its a bad idea as the definition of tmcl:see-also states that
it is intended for use in documenting TMCL constructs, but the
application of rdfs:seeAlso is much broader.

I think your first option is the wisest and makes the least
ontological commitment, but still provides all the information
necessary for a consumer to make the inferences that suit their
application.

I thin your second option confuses the meanings of the different
subjects and could lead to confusion in consuming processes that see a
TMCL documentation occurrence on a topic that is not a TMCL construct.

A third option might be to treat rdfs:seeAlso as a statement about
merging and so convert it to a subject identifier (I say subject
identifier because the definition of rdfs:seeAlso is that the value is
the address of a resource with more information about the subject, not
the address of the subject itself). This makes more of a commitment
about what you believe rdfs:seeAlso to mean, but IMO it is closer than
tmcl:see-also.

Cheers

Kal

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Lars Heuer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am creating RDF to Topic Maps mappings for common RDF vocabularies
> and I stumbled over tmcl:see-also [1].
>
> Until today I kept the rdfs:seeAlso [2] as occurrence type but I
> wonder if it would make sense to set the occurrence type to
> tmcl:see-also. I am tempted to think that this is a bad idea but maybe
> others have comments regarding this issue?
>
> RDF:
>
>  @prefix wp_en: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/>.
>  @prefix wp_de: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/>.
>  @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
>
>
>  wp_en:John_Lennon rdfs:seeAlso wp_de:JohnLennon .
>
>
> Possible results:
>
> (a) Keeping rdfs:seeAlso as occ-type:
>
>    wp_en:JohnLennon
>     rdfs:seeAlso: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnLennon>.
>
>
> (b) Translating rdfs:seeAlso to tmcl:see-also
>
>    wp_en:JohnLennon
>     tmcl:see-also: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnLennon>.
>
>
> Ideas? Opinions?
>
>
> [1] <http://www.isotopicmaps.org/tmcl/2010-03-25/#d0e3899>
> [2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_seealso>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
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