- From: Benjamin Nowack <bnowack@appmosphere.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:35:18 +0200
- To: Quentin Reul <qreul@csd.abdn.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
On 23.10.2006 17:21:49, Quentin Reul wrote: >I was wondering if you could explain why skos:broader and skos:narrower >properties have been added as part of the SKOS vocabulary. My query is >based on the fact that generalization/specification can already be >represented by properties such as rdfs:subClassOf. SKOS concepts differ from rdfs/owl classes, one of the purposes of SKOS (the main one?) is to be less precise than RDF schemas/ontologies in order to avoid unwanted restrictions and inference effects caused by using RDFS or OWL constructs. >Furthermore, the Semantic Web tend to claim that reuse is very >important. However, properties such as skos:subject or >skos:primarySubject are already present in other languages such as >foaf:topic and foaf:primaryTopic respectively in FOAF ><http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>. The domain of foaf:topic is foaf:Document, the domain of skos:subject, however, is not restricted (looks like you can tag real-life objects like conferences etc. with SKOS). I also think SKOS adds some (informally described) transitivity features to skos:subject (in combination with broader/narrower). just some thoughts, benjamin > >The W3C have proposed a draft for Wordnet in RDFS and OWL ><http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/WNET/wordnet-sw-20040713.html> >and I was wondering if there was any plans to represent WordNet in SKOS. > >Regards, > >Quentin >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >The University of Aberdeen has been shortlisted in The Times Higher >Awards 2006 for: > > * * Higher Education Institution of the Year; and * > * * Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community * > >For full details, visit: http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2006/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Quentin H. Reul >Computing Science >University of Aberdeen > >01224 272485 >qreul@csd.abdn.ac.uk >http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~qreul <http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/%7Eqreul> ><http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/%7Eqreul> > >
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