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ISSUE-149: Last Call Comment: Asymmetric associations http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/149 Raised by: Alistair Miles On product: SKOS Raised by Erik Hennum in [1]: """ In our experience, while we've had no need for symmetric associations, we've had considerable need for directional, non-hierarchical associations. For instance, our target audience perceives a directional association between a hardware platform and the operating systems that run on the platform and again between an operating system and the software applications that run on the operating system. In Section 8.6.3. Symmetry of skos:related, the draft makes a point of providing examples of asymmetric subproperties of skos:related, suggesting that our experience may not be unusual. Is this requirement sufficiently common that it makes sense to provide an asymmetric subproperty of skos:related as part of the standard rather than have many adopters solve the same problem in different ways? Effectively, this subproperty would be a broader / narrower relationships that does _not_ entail or imply the weak transitive associations that construct the hierarchy. """ [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Jun/0103.html
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