Re: [Proposal][SKOS-Core] handling top concepts

* Miles, AJ (Alistair)  <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> [2004-08-04 17:27+0100]
> > Thanks, this identifies a discomfort I've had w/ interactions between 
> > 'top concept' notion and thesaurus mixing. At heart you're saying 
> > 'top concept' is a relation between a a scheme/dataset/thesaurus and
> > a concept. Makes sense to me.
> > 
> > So would this be:
> > 
> > <owl:FunctionalProperty 
> > rdf:about="http:///....../skos/core#hasTopConcept"/>
> > 
> > ie. anything that has a skos:hasTopConcept has only one such thing?
> > 
> 
> Thanks Dan.
> 
> The original idea was that a scheme has several skos:hasTopConcept
> properties, pointing to the top level concepts for that scheme (i.e. so not
> functional).
> 
> If we made skos:hasTopConcept functional, each scheme would have to be
> defined with a single root concept ... do you think it's worth doing it that
> way?

Ah, righto. I was reading too much into 'top'.

Yeah seems more useful to have several, otherwise they'll all just be 
thing/entity/object/resource etc...

I'm not 100% clear on the use case for this construct, I guess.

Dan

Received on Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:55:13 UTC