Re: Side question : mapping OWL classes to SKOS concepts Re: SKOS Guide and owl:sameAs

Antoine Isaac wrote:

> Sorry for breaking in late in the conversation, and perhaps answering
> in the wrong direction. But what do you think of the solution that
> would consist of specifying the correspondences between Bernard's OWL
> hotel ontology and SKOS Accomodation thesaurus using OWL
> restrictions, which is possible in the example Bernard gave (the
> following can be a third RDF file, or a specification included in the
> hotel OWL ontology)

[...]

> As Mark said there are two orthogonal problems, but having everything
> represented in RDF/OWL allow to solve that in a declarative way
> (well, a declarative way using RDF) and at runtime if Bernard wishes
> that (provided he uses an OWL reasoner)

Looks like breaking a fly on the wheel but if you insist on using an OWL
reasoner (by the way the halting problem does apply if you use
reasoners, doesn't it?). I like SKOS because it can be used for subject
indexing without making things too complicated.

Greetings,
Jakob

Received on Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:49:52 UTC