Dear Thanasi,
A suggest minor modifications, more explicit:
"The nominal groups used to identify classes and properties are also
referred to as ‘labels’. While the goal of a label /is to approximate
/the meaning of the class or property in a few words, it/is in general
/impossible to distil the nuance of the represented concept into a
sentence fragment /with the limited terms of one particular natural
language/; relying (del:solely) on the label to infer the meaning of the
class or property introduces significant potential for misunderstanding.
Therefore, these labels function instead as reminders of the
corresponding scope notes /only/. As the labels cannot encapsulate the
intension of classes and properties, no assumption about the meaning of
a class or property should be made from its label alone."
Opinions?
Best,
Martin
On 7/14/2022 12:18 PM, Athanasios Velios via Crm-sig wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the homework for issue 600
(https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-600-classproperty-labels-are-not-definitions)
on the role of labels of classes and properties, Erin and I drafted
the following text to be added at the end of the "Naming Conventions"
section.
"The nominal groups used to identify classes and properties are also
referred to as ‘labels’. While the goal of a label may be to indicate
the meaning of the class or property in a few words, it would be
impossible to distil the nuance of the represented concept into a
sentence fragment; relying solely on the label to infer the meaning of
the class or property introduces significant potential for
misunderstanding. Therefore, these labels should instead function as
reminders of the corresponding scope notes. As the labels cannot
encapsulate the intension of classes and properties, no assumption
about the meaning of a class or property should be made from its label
alone."
Happy to hear your comments and prepare a WD for Rome.
All the best,
Thanasis
_______________________________________________
Crm-sig mailing list
Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr
http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
--
------------------------------------
Dr. Martin Doerr
Honorary Head of the
Center for Cultural Informatics
Information Systems Laboratory
Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton,
GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece
Vox:+30(2810)391625
Email:mar...@ics.forth.gr
Web-site:http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl
_______________________________________________
Crm-sig mailing list
Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr
http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
