You asked for an example, end those are valid examples. It is even an example that use one of the most used ontologies on the net. Other examples from DCterms is coverage, which can be both temporal and spatial. We have a bunch of properties that can have an alias "DCterms coverage", a country for example or a year.
Use a separate list of "deferred labels", and put the existing label on that if someone tries to edit the defined (preferred) label. That list should be unique, as it should not be possible to save a new label that already exist on the list of deferred labels. At some future point in time it can be implemented some clean up routine, but I think it will take a long time before name clashes will be a real problem.
At some point I think we should seriously consider to use "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference" http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 08.07.2015 um 14:13 schrieb John Erling Blad:
What you want is closer to a redirect than an alias, while an alias is closer to a disambiguation page.
Yes. The semantics of labels on properties is indeed different from labels on items, and always has been. Property labels are defined to be unique names. Extending the uniqueness to aliases allows them, to qact as redirects, which allow use to "rename" or "move" properties (that is, change their label).
Using (unique) aliases for this seems the simplest solution. Introducing another kind-of-aliases would be confusing in the UI as well as in the data model, and wopuld require a lot more code, which is nearly exactly the same as for aliases.
I don't follow your example with the DC vocabulary. For the height, width and length properties, why would one want an alias that is the same for all of them? What would that be useful for?
-- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata