- From: Carl Mattocks <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Mark van Assem" <mark@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: "Leonard Will" <l.will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>, "John McClure" <jmcclure@hypergrove.com>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
+ 1 <quote who="Mark van Assem"> > > >> 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. > > -- > Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam > mark@cs.vu.nl - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mark > > -- Carl Mattocks co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC CEO CHECKMi v/f (usa) 908 322 8715 www.CHECKMi.com Semantically Smart Compendiums [AOL] IM CarlCHECKMi
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