- From: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:31:57 +0000
- To: Antoine Isaac <Antoine.Isaac@KB.nl>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, public-esw-thes@w3.org
Or... [ In particular, there is no logical dependency between skos:inScheme and owl:imports: the use of owl:imports does not entail any further skos:inScheme statements. ] ...? Cheers, Al On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:38:28AM +0100, Antoine Isaac wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > > > -- 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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