Re: SKOS Primer/ISSUE 36

On 31 Jan 2008, at 11:26, Antoine Isaac wrote:

>
> Hi Sean,
>
> That's a fair point.
> I propose to add the following paragraph at the end of section 2.5  
> of the Primer
> [[
> Finally, it is important to notice that the SKOS vocabulary only  
> offers a limited support for containment of KOS information in a  
> concept scheme. skos:inScheme and skos:hasTopConcept link concept  
> schemes and concepts. Yet, there is no mechanism in SKOS to record  
> that a specific statement concerning these concepts, e.g. a  
> skos:broader assertion, pertains to a specific concept scheme,  
> while it is usually acknowledged that a KOS consists of both its  
> concepts and the links that define them. It is however possible to  
> represent and access such containment information by making use of  
> more general provenance mechanisms, like Named Graphs for RDF. For  
> more detail, see the Annex E of the SKOS Reference [SKOS-REFERENCE].
> ]]
> Does this answer your comment?

Yes, that seems fine.

	Sean

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