- From: Leonard Will <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:31:58 +0000
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 at 14:07:27, Alasdair Gray <agray@dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote >From the point of view of providing interfaces to users who do not want >to concern themselves with what is a collection and what is a concept, >these rules will be essential. This is in fact something I am in the >midst of developing, a mapping editor for skos vocabularies. Indeed, and I think that there is confusion here because of the idea that arrays or collections need to have names. In an ordinary thesaurus they do not - I don't know whether SKOS requires them to have names, but if so these names do not have to be shown in the user interface. The relationships that users have to deal with are purely between concepts - arrays or collections do not have BT/NT or RT/RT relationships, though concepts and arrays may be members of other arrays. As Jakob says: >Arrays and skos:collections do not imply any semantics for retrieval - >they are just groups because it's useful for browsing, showing, >printing... the hierarchy. Leonard -- Willpower Information (Partners: Dr Leonard D Will, Sheena E Will) Information Management Consultants Tel: +44 (0)20 8372 0092 27 Calshot Way, Enfield, Middlesex EN2 7BQ, UK. Fax: +44 (0)870 051 7276 L.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk Sheena.Will@Willpowerinfo.co.uk ---------------- <URL:http://www.willpowerinfo.co.uk/> -----------------
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