- From: Leonard Will <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:07:07 +0100
- To: Mark van Assem <mark@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: John McClure <jmcclure@hypergrove.com>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
In message <42DF6CCD.8010703@cs.vu.nl> on Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Mark van Assem <mark@cs.vu.nl> wrote >. . .the Guide . . . already contains an example from the UKAT >thesaurus which violates normal subclass modeling: Economic policy is >not a superclass of Economic cooperation. Would such an explanation >make it easier to read? According to the thesaurus standards, the BT/NT relationship should be used only for the three relationship types: class/subclass, whole/part (in a limited number of specified cases), and class/instance. The problem is that many existing thesauri and other controlled vocabulary lists do not conform strictly to these guidelines, either through looseness of interpretation or because they think it will be "helpful to users". :-( SKOS has to decide whether to confine itself to implementing the standard guidelines or to try to accommodate the reality of what has been done in existing systems designed for human use where more tolerance of inconsistencies is possible than in machine processing. Leonard Will -- Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, Sheena E Will) Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 (0)20 8372 0092 27 Calshot Way, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 7BQ, UK. Fax: +44 (0)870 051 7276 L.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk Sheena.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk ---------------- <URL:http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/> -----------------
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