- From: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:57:07 -0800
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Cc: Simon Spero <sesuncedu@gmail.com>,SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
It might be good to discuss this our tcon, as I don't understand your response to my question. Daniel At 01:38 AM 1/10/2008, Antoine Isaac wrote: >Hi daniel, > >That would seem intuitive in some case, but it is not in many KOS practices. >Consider the following quote from the NISO >Z39.19 standard Simon has just pointed us to >(and I think there is the same in ISO 2788) > >>Associative Relationships >>This relationship covers associations between >>terms that are neither equivalent nor hierarchical, > >Antoine > >>Are we still contemplating hierarchy to these >>relations? It would seem "broader" and >>"narrower" are relations subsumed by "related". >> >>Daniel >> >>At 02:01 PM 1/9/2008, Simon Spero wrote: >> >> >>>Is it better to label these relationships with the terms 'broader' >>>and 'narrower' whilst defining them with the semantics of 'related'? >>>Wouldn't it be better to use the standard labels to denote the >>>standard semantics, and use a special label, disjoint from broader, >>>for the non-hierarchical hierarchies? >>> >>>The SKOS Core Guide[1] originally aligned itself with Z39.19/BS8723; >>>I feel it's a mistake to abandon the standard semantics without also >>>abandoning the standard labels. The Library of >>>Congress adopted the BT/ NT labels for its >>>syndetic relationships in the LCSH, without fixing >>>the semantics; this has not proven helpful :-) >>> >>> >>>Broader/Narrower Relationships >>> >>>To assert that one concept is broader in meaning (i.e. more general) >>>than another, where the scope (meaning) of one falls completely within >>>the scope of the other, use the skos:broader property. To assert the >>>inverse, that one concept is narrower in meaning (i.e. more specific) >>>than another, use the skos:narrower property. >>>[...] >>>The properties skos:broader and skos:narrower are transitive properties. >>> >>>See also section on hierarchies in BS8723. >>> >>> [1, §#sechierarchy] >>> >>>Simon >>> >>>[1] Alistair Miles and Dan Brickley,SKOS Core Guide (November, 2005). >>>Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide/ >> >> >
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