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  1. OMG Issue

COMMONS13 — Annotation Vocabulary has incomplete definitions from SKOS

  • Key: COMMONS13-12
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    The definitions taken from SKOS seem altered and incomplete.
    For example here is the official definition from SKOS RDF file for altLabel. The Commons version changes the label (using "tag" instead of "label") and omits the comments, one of which is the important (informal) disjointness constraint, and example.

    <rdf:Description rdf:about="#altLabel">
    <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">alternative label</rdfs:label>
    <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core"/>
    <skos:definition xml:lang="en">An alternative lexical label for a resource.</skos:definition>
    <skos:example xml:lang="en">Acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants, and irregular plural/singular forms may be included among the alternative labels for a concept. Mis-spelled terms are normally included as hidden labels (see skos:hiddenLabel).</skos:example>
    <!-- S10 -->
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#AnnotationProperty"/>
    <!-- S11 -->
    <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label"/>
    <!-- S12 (not formally stated) -->
    <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The range of skos:altLabel is the class of RDF plain literals.</rdfs:comment>
    <!-- S13 (not formally stated) -->
    <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel are pairwise disjoint properties.</rdfs:comment>
    <!-- For non-OWL aware applications -->
    <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
    </rdf:Description>

  • Reported: Commons 1.2b1 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:56 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — COMMONS 1.3b1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Annotation Vocabulary has incomplete definitions from SKOS

    Modified the Annotation Vocabulary to revert to the precise annotations used in SKOS and Dublin Core rather than avoid circular definitions and comply with ISO 704, (which is required by ISO and thus for all OMG ontologies). Original explanatory notes remain in the ontology, though.

    This change depends on the resolutions to issues in Commons 1.3, including revised metadata, through Ballot #3.

  • Updated: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:18 GMT
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