Exactly what does broader/narrower mean? from Richard Cyganiak on 2007-02-17 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from February 2007)

From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:45:34 +0100
To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Cc: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Message-Id: <52848964-5E1A-401A-982B-EE89E9E9FFEF@cyganiak.de>

Hi all,

A quick question.

In Wikipedia, there are often category hierarchies like this:

     Germany
       |
       +-- German politicians

Can this be translated to SKOS? If Germany and German politicians are  
skos:Concepts, then is there a skos:broader relationship between  
them? I'm a bit concerned that one isn't really a sub-topic of the  
other.

To phrase the question differently: Is there a clear test to decide  
if A skos:broader B? For RDFS class hierarchies it's simple: A  
rdfs:subClassOf B iff all instances of A are also instances of B.  
What would be the equivalent rule for SKOS?

Cheers,
Richard

Received on Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:45:44 UTC