- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:07:39 +0000
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Cc: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On 9 Jan 2008, at 21:16, Antoine Isaac wrote: >> >> Yep, it's perfectly OK to be able to write false claims in SKOS. >> There's >> nothing wrong with being wrong. >> >> The relationship is associative, and >> > can be modeled in SKOS using the appropriate construct >> > (skos:related). The error is in the data, not the standard. >> >> +1 >> > > -1 > As far as I'm concerned, we are not trying to propose with SKOS a > standard that would oblige KOS owners to re-engineer their > conceptual structures to fit our whishes. The objective is to > easily represent and to publish KOSs. So if there is enough cases > of "non-transitive" hierarchies (and I do believe it is the case) > then it is a wrong design decision to make skos:broader transitive. +1. So maybe I /would/ be unhappy seeing it as transitive.... Useful evidence here would be some concrete examples/use cases where the broader/narrower hierarchies aren't transitive. Do you have any Antoine? > I would actually like to get some feedback on the following point > of view, to see whether I'm completely wrong or not. To me, ISO and > others are standards that are also intended as guidelines for > designing good thesauri, hence their spending much pages on > explaining how to properly choose a term and so on. SKOS is > different because: > - it is not a guideline that says in details what makes a good KOS > or not for KOSs. We have some recommendations, but the number of > constraints is very small. > - SKOS could be used to represent KOSs that are not thesauri I think this is a very good point that Antoine makes here, and I'd strongly agree. We are providing a representational framework that can be used to represent (among other things) thesauri. Sean -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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