Re: [SKOS] SKOS ontology sanity-check?

Hi Antoine,

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:42:46PM +0100, Antoine Isaac wrote:
>> prefLabel, altLabel, hiddenLabel:
>> I suggest to make these properties disjoint, to mirror what is done for 
>> the simple SKOS labelling properties.
>> I know that in general the dumbing down of the XL labels will reveal  
>> cases when a label is assigned by different means to a concept. But  
>> there might be (hopefully very marginal) cases where instances of  
>> xl:Label with different lexicalForms may be asserted (or inferred) to 
>> be the same. In such cases the inconsistency would not be detected.
>
> This in fact requires first changing the SKOS Reference section that introduces these elements! That's more than editorial work, and we could well add these axioms in the CR period.

Yes, we would need to add a new statement to the class and property
definitions in section A.3:

"skosxl:prefLabel, skosxl:altLabel and skosxl:hiddenLabel are pairwise disjoint properties."

I don't know if this is editorial, substantive, or something in
between, because this is really an error of omission -- we just forgot
to add something that clearly should be there. Ralph, Guus, can we
make this change in the CR period, without a new last call?

Cheers,

Alistair

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