- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +0100
- To: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Antoine Isaac wrote: > > Hi Alistair, > > Very nice summary of these problems! +1 I'm still digesting the issue. But one immediate point: I am uncomfortable with excessive use of OWL's notion of "annotation properties". They're very much 2nd-class citizens in the OWL world. I'd rather define extra properties for class etc annotation, and restrict prefLabel, altLabel to SKOS individuals. SKOS is in a funny place here, since it bridges (conceptually if not yet technically) the ontological and the "thesaural" (ahem) styles for world modelling. I think it should be possible for SKOS instance data to be usable within a DL environment. And the SKOS vocabulary definitions should be OK in a DL environment too. But beyond that, I envisage SKOS being used in practice within idioms which blatently "cross the streamers" and tangle up instance data with class-level data. But I think we can make this an opt-in feature that doesn't upset the DL approach. BTW re DL, it is worth keeping an eye on http://owl1_1.cs.manchester.ac.uk/owl_specification.html#A and nearby, to get a sense for where the folk behind OWL DL's thinking is headed... cheers, Dan
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