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RE: Draft SKOS Scheme

From: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:39:07 -0700
Message-Id: <6.2.5.6.2.20080429073652.049a1670@med.stanford.edu>
To: "Alistair Miles" <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, "'SWD Working SWD'" <public-swd-wg@w3.org>

I think it would be useful to have a SKOS schema in OWL DL. One 
approach might be to factor the OWL-Full representation into an 
OWL-DL component and an OWL-Full component (Natasha Noy and I 
recently did this in producing an OWL version of FMA [1]).

Daniel

[1] http://stanford.edu/~rubin/pubs/WEBSEM127.pdf

At 06:14 AM 4/29/2008, Alistair Miles wrote:
> > 2/ The schema defines an OWL ontology. There are some explanatory
> > remarks concerning this.
>
>Note in particular that this schema is *not* an OWL DL ontology. It's OWL
>Full mainly because of the use of some SKOS documentation properties and DC
>Terms properties to annotate the SKOS classes and properties themselves.
>There may also be an issue with RDF list. It *may* be possible to make the
>SKOS schema an OWL DL ontology without contradicting the SKOS reference, so
>if this is important to you, speak now.
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