- From: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:58:51 +0100
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
* Williams, Stuart > > Ok... so, the relationship between a topic and a subject is functional > and: 1) direct in the case where the subject is a directly web > accessible resource; 2) indirect via a subject indicator which has an > inverse functional relation with the subject, in the case where the > subject is not a directly accessible web resource. FWIW subjects that > are web accessible resources could also be indicated indirectly. All correct. > If that is correct, then a 'problem' with skos:subjectIndicator is > that > as it is currently framed is that it relates a skos:Concept (a > tm:Topic > like thing as you seem to concur below) directly to a subject > indicator > without an intervening tm:Subject. The skos:Concept and the tm:Subject are the same thing. In fact, tm:Subject owl:sameAs rdf:Resource skos:Concept rdfs:subclassOf tm:Subject To put it another way, the subject is the thing you are representing in your RDF model. --Lars M.
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