RE: [SKOS] ISSUE-44 (was: Suggestion for SKOS FAQ)

Hi Alisair

Thanks a lot for the notification.
I do feel uncomfortable because a mapping implicitly entails a hierarchy
now.
(still have to check what this will mean for exactMatch - can I somewhere
find the new statements in a comprehensive draft version ?)
But maybe that is just my thinking pattern that needs to adapt.
Within that pattern, the application I handle considers the mapped (matched)
concepts to belong to 2 different concept-schema.
So there is no hierarchy intended, just a matching.

kr, Johan De Smedt. 
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Sent: Thursday, 29 May, 2008 10:41
To: Alistair Miles
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Subject: Re: [SKOS] ISSUE-44 (was: Suggestion for SKOS FAQ)


Alistair Miles a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> The current SKOS Reference Working Draft [1] takes the following position.
>
> The property skos:broader is, by convention, used to assert a "direct"
> hierarchical link between two concepts. 
>   

Note that this 'link' also include 'hierarchical mapping links' since
skos:broadMatch is made a suproperty of skos:broader (which means that every
assertion of skos:broadMatch entails one assertion of skos:broader).
Somehow I feel like your text also fits the situation, even when the
interpretation of 'hierarchical link' is made a bit different from what it
was.
But I wanted to flag the issue to people of the SKOS mailing list which
might not have noticed this new resolution, eventually to get feedback from
them.

Cheers,

Antoine

> The property skos:broaderTransitive is used to infer the transitive 
> closure of hierarchical links, i.e. all "direct" and "indirect" 
> hierarchical links between concepts.
>
> A software application can use skos:broader to query for direct 
> hierarchical links, and can use skos:broaderTransitive to query for 
> all (direct and
> indirect) hierarchical links.
>
> This is a pragmatic position, supporting software applications that 
> need to access both direct and indirect hierarchical links.
>
> Note that many thesaurus software applications have this need, 
> regardless of your philosophical position on whether the thesaurus 
> hierarchical relationship is transitive or not.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alistair.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080125/
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