- From: Sini, Margherita (KCEW) <Margherita.Sini@fao.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:00:32 +0100
- To: "Reul, Q. H." <q.reul@abdn.ac.uk>, public-swd-wg@w3.org
Dear all, I also find myself sometime in this confusing situation, so I have a proposal: can we add the verb to the relationships name, e.g. skos:hasBroader or skos:hasNarrower, etc? This is avoid the confusion. Regards Margherita -----Original Message----- From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Reul, Q. H. Sent: 07 December 2007 18:59 To: public-swd-wg@w3.org Subject: SKOS broader/narrower confusion Hi all, I was describing SKOS yesterday to several colleagues. After a long discussion, we found that skos:narrower and skos:broader could be confusing to the user. In SKOS Core [1], the meaning of these properties is similar to concept A has a broader term called concept B (i.e. A skos:broader B). In the example, animal is considered to have a narrower concept called mammals. However, my initial interpretation of the property was to say that concept A is narrower than concept B. Regards, Quentin [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/#sechierarchy ****************************************** * Quentin H. Reul * * PhD Research Student * * Department of Computing Science * * University of Aberdeen, King's College * * Room 238 in the Meston Building * * ABERDEEN AB24 3UE * * Phone: +44 (0)1224 27 4485 * * http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~qreul * ******************************************
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