SKOS

Hi all,

my name is Jan. I work at DERI Innsbruck. As I'm new to this group, please
allow me some stupid questions :-)

Do I get it right that a skos:Concept specializes an owl:Class in a way that
it is only about *abstract* things?

Hereby both the abstract and the non-abstract entities shall be allowed to
have different types of labels, right?

Having arrived at this point I was wondering: Why not adopt the structure
proposed within PROTON [1] where we have

owl:Thing
	Entity
		Abstract
			GeneralTerm
		Happening
		Object
	LexicalResource
		Mention
		WeightedTerm
		Alias

with each entity having the property hasAlias:Alias. I think in here a
GeneralTerm is exactly what in SKOS is called Concept. Am I wrong at this
point? Assuming this to be true, both abstract and non-abstract entities
would have a pointer to a LexicalResource, i.e. some sort of label which is
what we want, right?

What do you think?


Best regards
Jan

[1] http://proton.semanticweb.org/

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Received on Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:54:38 UTC