[oslc-core] +1 for new property oslc:shortId, OR revised recommendation on use of rdfs:label

[Paul McMahan]

+1 on this proposal

Best wishes,
Paul McMahan
IBM Rational

"Oslc-Core" <oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net> wrote on 05/15/2013
10:45:04 AM:

> From: Nick Crossley/Irvine/IBM at IBMUS
> To: oslc-core at open-services.net
> Date: 05/15/2013 01:10 PM
> Subject: [oslc-core] +1 for new property oslc:shortId, OR revised
> recommendation on use of rdfs:label
> Sent by: "Oslc-Core" <oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net>
>
> We have a need for firmer OSLC guidance on this issue.
>
> In the RDF index for Rational tool data today, you can perform a
> free-text search for a work item number (task number, etc.).  This
> is because RTC puts the work item number in both the oslc:shortTitle
> property and the dcterms:identifier property.  Conversely, RQM does
> not have any public RDF representation of a test case number - and
> as a result a user cannot perform a free-text search for a test case
> by number, nor write a query for it.  RQM uses the
> dcterms:identifier for an internal identifier, not a human readable
> one (in fact, it uses the test case URI as its identifier).
>
> It would be useful to have a firm recommendation on a property to be
> used for short human-readable identifiers, whether that is
> oslc:shortId, or a revised recommendation on the use of rdfs:label
> as per the text quoted by Steve in the earlier email:
>
> [[
> Yes, rdfs:label is widely used as "just a label". See:
>
> http://www.aifb.kit.edu/images/c/c0/LabelsInTheWebOfData.pdf
>
> Usage has evolved from the definition. I agree that the specification
> ought to be updated. One for the RDF WG group I think.
> ]]
>
> Nick.
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