opening this group [via SKOS and OWL for Interoperabilty Community Group]

Dear all,

Thank you for your interest in this community group. The topic for this group
is: SKOS and OWL for interoperability. This topic was discussed during the
#SDSVoc bar camp in Amsterdam last December, and we felt that we needed more
time and more opinions to come up with best practices and design patterns for
using SKOS versus OWL.

Some background: in the wild there are many examples of SKOS implementations.
People seem to find it a useful, easy standard to "capture things". On the other
hand, people are very creative in extending the basic SKOS scheme, and by doing
so move towards a more OWLy version of the original SKOS scheme. (Some examples
here.)

Statement: To support interoperability we should agree on using standard design
patterns and move away from the tempation to make the perfect semantic model.

This would imply that it is best to use the SKOS scheme in a clean way and not
play with it too much, otherwise the user of your data has to run a reasoner
before (s)he can use. And if you want to add complexity, maybe just create an
OWL class, and not subclass from skos:Concept.

What is your opinion?

Lieke



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