Re: How to use notations from classification schemes in SKOS

In message <43F0A546.9060502@rl.ac.uk> on Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Alistair 
Miles <a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk> wrote
>I don't think it would be appropriate to express a similar constraint 
>in the general case (no more than one 'notation' per 'notation 
>datatype'), however, as I believe some classification schemes allow 
>more than one 'notation' for each concept (e.g. MeSH?).

When they do, it is probably because the concept is being considered in 
a different context, and is therefore a different "compound concept". 
For example DDC has the concept of "horses" at 599.6655 and at 636.1, as 
well as other places.

These are, though, really compound concepts expressing the combination 
of horses and a discipline, so are not the same.

599.6655 is the compound concept of "horses : zoology"
and 636.1 is the compound concept of "horses : agriculture"

The danger is that in some systems and catalogues the captions of both 
these numbers may be just "horses", relying on people inferring the 
other elements of the compound from the hierarchy and adjacent terms in 
the schedule. Such captions would not be adequate when the concepts are 
seen in isolation.

Leonard

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