New issue/proposal: collections-5 (was RE: comment: collections are concepts or not?)

Hi all,

Just to say I've added this to the proposals list as 'collections-5':

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/proposals#collections-5

I've just described the problem with links to background material, I'll write up options for solution asap after second review is concluded.

Cheers,

Al.


-----Original Message-----
From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Sue Ellen Wright
Sent: 10 October 2005 22:03
To: Dan Connolly
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Subject: Re: comment: collections are concepts or not?


I agree that concept and collection should be disjoint. In concept theory, a collection can be a descendent of a concept, and each item in the collection (which terminologists tend to think of as a set) is itself a concept, but the collection is just a way of containerizing these items that share a particular kind of relation to the initial concept. 
Sue Ellen

 
On 10/10/05, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: 

I see...

"There is consensus that a 'node label' does not represent a label for a
concept in its own right" 

--http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/#seccollections


and just below it I see a diagram wherein 

ex:milk skos:narrower [ rdf:type skos:Collection ].

and we have skos:narrower rdfs:subPropertyOf skos:semanticRelation,
so that

ex:milk skos:semanticRelation [ rdf:type skos:Collection ].

and 
and skos:semanticRelation rdfs:range skos:Concept
so that

ex:milk skos:semanticRelation
  [ rdf:type skos:Collection, skos:Concept ].

so the collection is a concept after all.

Please fix this inconsistency between the example and the prose one 
way or another.

I suggest keeping Collections and Concepts disjoint, and introducing
a narrowerCollection property.

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ 
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Sue Ellen Wright
Institute for Applied Linguistics
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242 USA
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