issues with skos:related and Semantic Tags

• From: Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com>
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:41:13 +0300
• To: <public-annotation@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <08ac01d0eec9$1cc05bb0$56411310$@ontotext.com>

http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#semantic-tags says to use a blank
node, and skos:related to link to a LOD resource for that concept (e.g.
dbr:Paris).

However, skos:related has strict semantics that makes it ill-suited for this
purpose:
- it has range skos:Concept, which would infer the LOD resource to be
skos:Concept.
  However, dbr:Paris is *not* a skos:Concept, it's a dbo:PopulatedPlace (and
a few more classes)
- it is symmetric, which would infer skos:related in the opposite direction
as well.
  So dbr:Paris would point to a bunch of blank nodes, namely the mentions of
Paris in annotations, and I'm not sure we want this.

For this case, why not use the LOD resource as oa:hasBody directly?
This would tack type oa:SemanticTag onto it, but I don't see how this is
worse than tacking skos:Concept and a bunch of skos:related to blank nodes.

Received on Monday, 14 September 2015 08:41:37 UTC