Re: FW: [Proposal][SKOS-Core] skos:denotes

In message <415D8205.3010203@hplb.hpl.hp.com> on Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave 
Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote
>Sounds fine. So would a name like "skos:indexedUnder" (for a property 
>which links from a document/resource to a thesaurus concept) be a 
>preferrable name?

Yes, but I don't like to use "under", which implies some form of 
subordination. Perhaps something like "indexed as",  "indexed with",
"associated with" or "relevant to" would be better. The first two of 
these put more emphasis on the operation of indexing, implying that 
someone has made a decision to apply these terms to a resource within a 
particular catalogue, whereas the second two put more emphasis on the 
more abstract statement that there is some relationship between the 
resource and the concept.

>> A thesaurus may have concepts which are "classes of one", often 
>>represented by proper names, but these are still concepts, not 
>>resources.
>
>Thanks, that's helped to clarify the earlier discussion. So the second 
>modeling I suggested (that the analogue of a skos:Concept 'Alistair 
>Miles' would be an owl:Class with one member) would be the normal 
>interpretation.

Yes. There may be many resources or documents about "Alistair Miles", 
but they would each be linked to the single thesaurus concept identified 
by his name.

Leonard

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