- From: Mark van Assem <mark@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:18:51 +0200
- To: Leonard Will <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>
- CC: John McClure <jmcclure@hypergrove.com>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
> 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". :-(
I hope this pattern will not repeat itself for ontologies on the web
using rdfs:Class/rdfs:subClassOf...
Actually that is something we're helping to prevent; by expressing
thesauri etc. in the SKOS vocabulary and not as classes etc. in RDF/OWL.
Mark.
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Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
mark@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark
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