- From: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:26:27 -0800
- To: "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com>,public-swd-wg@w3.org,public-esw-thes@w3.org
Examples come up in biomedicine all the time. There are many terminologies with overlapping content. Suppose an application wants to infer the parts of the hand by combining two different terminologies and following "part-of" for example. If there isn't consistent semantics in transitivity of this relation, then that task is impossible. Same with "broader-than" if you want to reliably infer if any arbitrary pair of terms is broader/narrower. Daniel At 01:29 PM 12/17/2007, Ed Summers wrote: >On Dec 17, 2007 4:22 PM, Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Sorry, but I disagree with the suggestion that people define > > transitivity for themselves. SKOS should not leave such things > > undefined--to do so guarantees people will have different semantics > > for SKOS properties which will prevent interoperability. > >I appreciate this point Daniel. Can you provide a concrete example of >how interoperability would be disrupted? > >//Ed
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