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A BFO and CCO conformant ontology of criminal acts
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NIBRS Labels #2

Closed johnbeve closed 1 year ago

johnbeve commented 1 year ago

NIBRS is a very interesting, useful, source for content, but I think you should stick less closely to the labels, at least when using rdfs:label. For one, several labels are plural in the ontology, which engenders confusion. For another, it's in my experience been good practice to use rdfs:label for the ontologically precise label, and skos:prefLabel for the user's preferred label, that perhaps in this case being the label provided by NIBRS.

avsculley commented 1 year ago

@johnbeve Sounds good. I will make those changes.

I was already aware of the plural issues, but I may not have kept the original labels as skos:prefLabels. My first aim, as I mentioned in the other issue, was to get the is_a hierarchy right. The reason for this was to then be able to systematically go through the other problems with the LMSS/NIBRS entities with an eye toward writing a paper. This includes the issues with the labels, issues of multiple inheritance, and more. Probably not a necessary course of action, but it was my plan.