- From: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:41:35 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>, David Wood <david@zepheira.com>, Mulgara General <mulgara-general@mulgara.org>, SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:28:38PM +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: > > > Something of an aside, and maybe this is sick, but does OWL allow any > notion of conditional transitivity ... eg. to let us declare that > 'skos:broader' used against Concepts of some type (eg. in some > particular scheme) is used transitively. But why would you need such a mechanism? The current design provides a standard mechanism for inferring and querying the transitive closure of hierarchical links. What more do you need? Cheers, Al. > Ah, it gives me a headache to think about this... > > Dan > > -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993
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