capitalisation of tokens in IVOAT

Frederic V. Hessman Hessman at Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE
Wed Nov 14 09:35:46 PST 2007


On 14 Nov 2007, at 6:26 pm, Douglas Burke wrote:

>
> Rick,
>
> I've just been looking at your new IVOAT RDF file - Wed Nov 14  
> 18:13:25
> 2007 - and see that you now lower case the first word of the prefLabel
> when using it as the fragment; so "#ActiveRegions" has become
> "#activeRegions". However, this is not done for all terms, since  
> there is
> still
>         <skos:Concept rdf:about="#DopplerEffect">
>         <skos:Concept rdf:about="#FourierTransforms">
> ditto for JulianDate, KapteynSelectedAreas, NewtonianTelescopes,
> XRaySpectra, YerkesClassification and possibly other terms.
>
> Is this intentional? I assume it is because it seems that the  
> Proper nouns
> have remained upepr case/
>
> Ta,
> Doug
>

Yup - this makes it possible to use "mercury" and "Mercury" (not yet  
done).  The simple rule is use the first capitalization and then  
continue as before.   Makes life much easier.

Rick



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