- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:20:31 +0100
- To: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
- CC: Simon Spero <sesuncedu@gmail.com>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Well, that basically says, transposed in SKOS words, that related covers everything that is not broader/narrower Antoine > 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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