Resolution to SKOS issue re: versionIRI

Dear all,

The following is a resolution to an issue raised by Frederick
Giasson [5] with regard to the "OWL DL prune" of the SKOS
specification.  

The changes described herein will shortly become visible in
the RDF representation [1] and recorded in the SKOS Errata note
[12].

Tom

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RESOLVED

That http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf [1]
be edited to add the triple:

     <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core>
         <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#versionIRI>
             <http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf>   .

DISCUSSION

-- Section C.3 of the SKOS Reference [2] says that the
   informative (non-normative) OWL 1 DL Sub-set should be
   cited with [3], which redirects to [4].

-- The issue was originally posted on the public-esw-thes 
   list on 23 November 2010 on behalf of Frederick Giasson [5], who 
   argued that because the formal representation of the "DL prune" 
   of SKOS [6] had no version IRI, it was (fixably) breaking a 
   rule specified in the 2009 OWL2 recommendation [7]:

       If an ontology has an ontology IRI but no version IRI,
       then a different ontology with the same ontology IRI
       but no version IRI /SHOULD NOT/ exist.

-- A resolution was proposed on 23 November [8] and finalized on
   4 February 2011 on the basis of support by Mike Bergman [9],
   Rinke Hoekstra [10], and Uli Sattler [11], with no negative
   opinions or counter-proposals noted.

-- This resolution represents a "clarification" of a
   "non-normative" part of the SKOS Reference recommendation.
   The resolved change will positively enhance the usability
   of the OWL DL representation of SKOS without negatively
   affecting the conformance of documents or software.

-- The substance of this resolution will be recorded in
   the SKOS Errata note [12].

[1] http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#namespace-documents
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
[4] http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2010Nov/0016.html
[6] http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos-owl1-dl.rdf
[7] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-syntax-20091027/#Ontology_IRI_and_Version_IRI
[8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2010Nov/0017.html
[9] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2010Nov/0019.html
[10] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2011Jan/0051.html
[11] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2011Feb/0001.html
[12] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/reference/20090811-errata

-- 
Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>

Received on Thursday, 10 February 2011 14:13:41 UTC