[SKOS] RE : misleading sentence in the SKOS primer

Dear Pat,

Thank you for taking the time to report on this. That's much appreciated! Indeed we certainly want to avoid any misleading.

I propose to rewrite the sentence as:
[
In particular, there is no logical dependency between skos:inScheme  
and owl:imports: the use of owl:imports will not result in the  
presence of any skos:inScheme statements other than the ones already asserted in the imported graph."
]

Do you think that would be better?

Best regards,

Antoine


-------- Message d'origine--------
De: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org de la part de Pat Hayes
Date: lun. 23/02/2009 18:27
À: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Objet : misleading sentence in the SKOS primer
 
The excellent "SKOS Primer" has one sentence in it which may be  
misleading. When discussing owl:imports, it states:

"In particular, there is no logical dependency between skos:inScheme  
and owl:imports: the use of owl:imports will not result in the  
presence of any additional skos:inScheme statements."

Well, no. It might, if the imported file itself contained some  
skos:inScheme statements.

What is meant here, as becomes clear when one follows the example  
given, is that if A imports B, then the triples in B should not be  
counted as being skos:inScheme in scheme A.

A minor point, but it caught my attention because when I read this for  
the first time (carelessly) it seemed like SKOS was denying the OWL  
semantics for owl:imports.

Pat Hayes
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