RE: [SKOS] Amsterdam topic "Concept semantics"

+1

Daniel

At 08:20 AM 10/2/2007, Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) wrote:
>We have, as you mention, some use cases where people want to use 
>only the labelling and documentation properties from SKOS, to add 
>more human-readable content to their formal (OWL) ontologies.
>
>Currently, neither the SKOS labelling properties nor the SKOS 
>documentation properties are declared with any domain. There are no 
>dependencies between these properties and the skos:Concept class.
>
>I propose that we keep them like that. This would allow the SKOS 
>labelling properties and the SKOS documentation properties to be 
>treated as if they were standalone modules, and to be used anywhere 
>in RDF or OWL, without having to worry about the semantics of the 
>skos:Concept class.
>
>(Maybe we could give this a name, as a design pattern for using SKOS 
>and OWL together -- i.e. "OWL + SKOS labelling and documentation 
>only" or something like that?)
>
>Anyway, if we keep them like that, then we don't need to consider 
>any of the SKOS labelling or documentation properties in our 
>discussion of the semantics of skos:Concept. We can just focus on 
>the semantics of skos:Concept, and design patterns for using 
>skos:Concept with OWL classes, properties and individuals. This may 
>simplify some of the options at [1].
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alistair.