RE: SKOS Extensions ... broaderDirect/narrowerDirect ... ?&In-Reply-To=<F5839D944C66C049BDB45F4C1E3D from Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) on 2005-08-26 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from August 2005)

From: Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:44:15 +0100
To: <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Message-ID: <677CE4DD24B12C4B9FA138534E29FB1D0ACD0B@exchange11.fed.cclrc.ac.uk>

> "Directness" is relative. I expect query tools and databases 
> (eg. built 
> on SPARQL) will
> be used by applications who do care to know whether some relationship 
> (eg. subClassOf)
> is directly asserted, versus implied, within a particular 
> dataset. 

I'm with Dan, I think we should leave it to the tools to tell us whether the relationship is asserted or inferred.  I'm happy to drop the idea of a 'broaderDirect' property in the SKOS Extensions vocabulary.

Cheers,

Al.

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