[SKOS]: [ISSUE 44] BroaderNarrowerSemantics

Hi all,

I think [ISSUE 44] might have been resolved at the f2f in Amsterdam a
few months ago as I think to remember that we would allow people to use
skos:broader/skos:narrower as both transitive and intransitive.

However, I believe that these semantic relations should be made
transitive. For each skos:ConceptScheme, there might have one or more
top concept and there might have several subconcepts available for each
of them. 

Example:
skos:ConceptScheme W
W skos:hasTopConcept X
X skos:narrower Y
Y skos:narrower Z

The user might want to know that Z skos:broader X. Or would simple graph
operation be enough to find all the sub- or super- concepts?

Furthermore, we have defined a skos:Concept rdf:type owl:Class and hence
skos:broader and skos:narrower could be used to describe owl:Class in
ontologies. I'm not sure that we want skos:semanticRelation to be
applied between owl:Class.

I'm sorry if any of these issues have already been covered.

Regards,
  
Quentin

[ISSUE 44] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/44

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