RE: Subdivision of Concept Schemes

Hi Bernard,

> 
> > I had thought about something like this, but wasn't sure if 
> it should be done
> > with new vocab in SKOS Core, or with existing vocab from 
> elsewhere.  There is
> > the dc:isPartOf / dc:hasPart property pair.  There is also 
> the option to
> > declare classes of concepts as OWL restrictions on the 
> skos:inScheme property
> > (as you did in another email) and declare one class to be a 
> subclass of another.
> 
> Good remarks. Indeed I'd rather buy the latter solution. BTW 
> do you think it would be a
> good idea to somehow document such (best) practices when 
> using OWL along with SKOS? And
> where? In the SKOS-Core guide? or in some other note?
> 

At the moment I think in some other note(s).  The relationship between SKOS and OWL, and best practises regarding their combined use, is something that probably needs a bit of time and some more discussion.  E.g. see the section 'Relationship to RDFS/OWL ontologies' in the latest editor's draft of the SKOS Core Guide [1] (which is a sort of tentative position statement regarding the hefty 'skos:denotes' discussion we had last year :).  

Also in previous drafts of the Guide there was a section on 'extending SKOS Core' which included using OWL to define classes of concepts (see [2]). But I think the subject of 'extending' SKOS Core should be covered in a separate note (which is why it's cut from the latest editor's draft).

I do think that a best practises kind of note showing how you can do cool extra stuff with SKOS like you suggested in [3] by using a bit of OWL would be great - let's add that to the wishlist :)

Cheers,

Al.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/guide/2005-02-15#secmodellingrdf
[2] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/guide/2004-11-25.html#secexttype
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2005Feb/0063.html

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Received on Friday, 25 February 2005 17:39:17 UTC