Re: RE : aboutness and broader

Leonard Will a écrit :
 > I'm not clear why you want to make this distinction or what different 
property you see the need for. If a document is about mammals, it is about animals.
sorry to jump in, but I don't think so: a document about mammals is not about 
animals, it is about a special kind of animals. If you're searching for 
information about the concept "animal", you're probably not interested with a 
document about platypus. When searching, it should be up to the user to decide 
whether she wants all documents about all kinds of animals, or just documents 
about the concept "animal".

Semanlink for instance (which uses skos in a tagging system) give both results:
http://www.semanlink.net/tag/animal.html
http://www.semanlink.net/tag/animal.html?mode=1

Regards,

fps

Received on Friday, 6 June 2008 13:51:45 UTC