Re: Low level API

In message <EF1C49A3F569D41186C900508B6DDC990C5690B1@ems3.glam.ac.uk> on 
Tue, 11 May 2004, "Tudhope D S (Comp)" <dstudhope@glam.ac.uk> wrote
>I think Ron was referring to a "number of levels" parameter in the API 
>call (ie in SKOS getConceptRelativesByPath) - a relative number of 
>levels (or relationship traversals) from the given concept. It could 
>include the whole hierarchy but might not necessarily in some large 
>thesaurus applications where you wanted a local context display centred 
>around the given concept. Thus 'Level no'. would not need to be stored 
>in the thesaurus representation.

Ah, right, that makes sense.

You might want to specify separately "number of levels up" and "number 
of levels down", or "up to the top of the tree and down three levels" 
from the given concept.

I wanted to make sure that people were not trying to impose some scheme 
of absolute levels (though this what the biologists do, labelling levels 
as kingdom - phylum - class - order - family . .  etc., which 
necessitates awkward interpolations like sub-order and so on).

Leonard
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