RE : Consistency of skos:note properties

Dear Stephane,

Indeed, there is nothing in the specs that forbids you to do this (see all formal semantic axioms at [1]). Which means that you can do it :-)

I can understand your feeling puzzled here. But SKOS, as many Semantic Web ontologies, allows for many things. It is therefore much more economical to specify what is not allowed, rather than listing everything that is allowed. We'll say, for instance, that a concept can have only one prefLabel per language tag, but we won't say that a concept can have any number of narrower concepts. It's just implicit...

Cheers,

Antoine

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference


-------- Message d'origine--------
De: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org de la part de Stephane Fellah
Date: ven. 19/06/2009 18:59
À: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Objet : Consistency of skos:note properties
 
Hi,

I am implementing a SKOS API based on the candidate recommendation.


I like to know if the following cases are consistent in the SKOS
specification.

Case 1: <MyConcept> skos:note "my generic note"@en skos:note "My second
note"@en
Case 2: <MyConcept> skos:note "my generic note"@en ; skos:scopeNote "my
scope note"@en

Is it required to have only one note per language ?

There is nothing said in the spec about this. Would be nice to have a
clarification.

Best regards
-- 
Stephane Fellah, MS, B.Sc

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