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(a)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.
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