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On 1/23/14, 4:01 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote: > So in my opinion, as is everything in the mail of course, this is even > worse. Now instead of 1600 properties, you have 1600 * (number of > languages +1) properties. And you're going to see them appearing in > uses of the ontology. Either stick with your opaque identifiers or > pick a language for the readable ones, and best practice would be > English, but doing both is a disaster in the making. > Actually, it's more than that. Because, as you see below, for each property there are two URIs, a reg:name, and an rdfs:label. The "lexical URI" is based on the reg:name not the rdfs:label. So that makes one opaque identifier, one lexical identifer, and two display forms. The reg:name is camel case and condensed, as compared to the label, which is space-delimited words. Both have language designations. The rdfs:label is written as a verb phrase, with either "has" or "is" -- a form that I generally find annoying in practice -- while the reg:name is "noun-ish." I'm sympathetic to the "has" form in some situations, such as when reading a triple as a statement, but the verb-enhanced form would seem odd on an input form, for example. Having both could be useful, but since RDF doesn't recognize label types it only works in a closed world. <!--Property: has address of the corporate body--> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/a/P50036"> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/a/" /> <reg:status rdf:resource="http://metadataregistry.org/uri/RegStatus/1001" /> <reg:name xml:lang="en">addressOfTheCorporateBody</reg:name> <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">has address of the corporate body</rdfs:label> <skos:definition xml:lang="en">Relates a corporate body to the address of a corporate body's headquarters or offices, or an e-mail or internet address for the body.</skos:definition> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property" /> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/c/C10005" /> <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60512" /> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/a/addressOfTheCorporateBody" /> </rdf:Description> kc -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet