Format of vocabulary master files

The distributed (and normative) SKOS files are generated to a greater or lesser 
extent.  This 
might consist of a conversion from some completely different format, such as 
the IAUT files 
which originate in the easily-parsed native format of the Lexicon application 
which originally 
managed them, or a relatively lightweight processing involving adding missing 
but mechanially 
inferrable relations.

Question: what should be the format of the master files?

Possible resolution 1: nothing mandated in the document -- the format of the 
master file should 
be whatever is most convenient, as long as the generated and distributed files 
are valid SKOS.

Possible resolution 2: SKOS, in Turtle notation, possibly requiring some 
post-processing to add 
omitted-but-inferrable relations.  This is easy to read and write, and it is 
simple enough that it 
would be feasible to create from scratch a parser for the relevant subset of 
it, if that were 
somehow necessary.

Possible resolution 3: some more fundamental no-punctuation format, such as 
that for the 
Lexicon program

No 2 seems the best balance between manageability and long-term maintainability.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by norman.x.gray on 17 Dec 2007 at 9:09

otmarjr / volute

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