Re: RE : Consistency of skos:note properties

Antoine,
Thanks for the clarification.

Best regards
Stephane Fellah

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Antoine Isaac <Antoine.Isaac@kb.nl> wrote:

>  Dear Stephane,
>
> Indeed, there is nothing in the specs that forbids you to do this (see all
> formal semantic axioms at [1]). Which means that you can do it :-)
>
> I can understand your feeling puzzled here. But SKOS, as many Semantic Web
> ontologies, allows for many things. It is therefore much more economical to
> specify what is not allowed, rather than listing everything that is allowed.
> We'll say, for instance, that a concept can have only one prefLabel per
> language tag, but we won't say that a concept can have any number of
> narrower concepts. It's just implicit...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Antoine
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference
>
>
> -------- Message d'origine--------
> De: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org de la part de Stephane Fellah
> Date: ven. 19/06/2009 18:59
> À: public-esw-thes@w3.org
> Objet : Consistency of skos:note properties
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am implementing a SKOS API based on the candidate recommendation.
>
>
> I like to know if the following cases are consistent in the SKOS
> specification.
>
> Case 1: <MyConcept> skos:note "my generic note"@en skos:note "My second
> note"@en
> Case 2: <MyConcept> skos:note "my generic note"@en ; skos:scopeNote "my
> scope note"@en
>
> Is it required to have only one note per language ?
>
> There is nothing said in the spec about this. Would be nice to have a
> clarification.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Stephane Fellah, MS, B.Sc
>
> Lead Software Engineer
>
>