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

Any last objections before I action this proposal [1] ?

Al.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2004Aug/0002.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Dave Beckett
> Sent: 10 August 2004 13:57
> To: Dan Brickley
> Cc: Miles, AJ (Alistair) ; 'Supekar, Kaustubh S.';
> 'public-esw-thes@w3.org'
> Subject: Re: [Proposal][SKOS-Core] handling top concepts
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:09:20 -0400, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> wrote:
> ...
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This is why I suggested skos:hasTopConcept to Alistair.  You can't
> promote one concept to 'top' in a shared web, since it might not be
> a top concept in another thesaurus in the same graph.  It is a
> relationship between the thesaurus and some concept(s).
> 
> > So would this be:
> > 
> > <owl:FunctionalProperty 
> rdf:about="http:///....../skos/core#hasTopConcept"/>
> > 
> > ie. anything that has a skos:hasTopConcept has only one such thing?
> 
> No.  It may be 0 or more.  But if such a relationship exists 
> it should be between
> the skos:ConceptScheme and some skos:Concept.  We had to pick
> a direction and it is most useful if it is written down (in 
> rdf/xml say)
> near the skos:ConceptScheme where other thesaurus-specific information
> is recorded since if you are considerign the thesarus itself, you want
> to see the general items about it - such as top concepts - if 
> the exist.
> Hence skos:hasTopConcept rather than skos:topConceptIn
> 
> Dave
>

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