Labels Are Product Decisions
Distinguish preferred, alternative, and hidden labels when designing AI-facing concepts.
The reframe: a label is not cosmetic metadata. It is a retrieval contract between people, documents, and the graph. The SKOS move SKOS treats a concept as the unit of meaning and labels as ways to refer to it. Preferred labels give one clean name. Alternative labels catch real synonyms and abbreviations. Hidden labels help search match misspellings or variants that should not appear in the UI. Why it works for AI AI retrieval is language-sensitive. When user language does not match graph labels, good facts stay invisible. But if every term becomes its own concept, the model receives duplicate…
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