RE: Quick comment from new SKOS user

Hi Dan,
> FWIW this style is most consistent with that advocated in the 
> RDF specs, which originally made this explicit by noting that 
> we read "[subject] has a [property name] value which is 
> [object]". eg. 
> [restaurants] has a [narrower] value which is [vegetarian restaurants]
> 
[snip]
> As an aside, I think 
> rdfs:subPropertyOf and rdfs:subClassOf would much better have 
> been named rdfs:superProperty, and rdfs:superClass but it's 
> too late for that now.
yes, this gets to the heart of it.  The intended reading you suggest
above would indeed make it wrong to have a preposition or verb in the
predicate name.  skos:narrower seems the more ambiguous when subClassOf,
subPropertyOf have become the established norm.  :genie :out :bottle, as
it were :-)

Ian

Received on Thursday, 6 January 2005 13:19:33 UTC