- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:37:22 +0000
- To: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- Cc: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On 10 Jan 2007, at 08:17, Thomas Baker wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:04:42PM +0000, Sean Bechhofer wrote: >> TITLE:Relationships in Concept Schemes >> DESCRIPTION: SKOS provides a notion of Concept Schemes. RDF's triple >> syntax makes it impossible to represent associations between concept >> schemes and particular relationships (e.g. a BT relationship) without >> resorting to reification. A principled approach to representing this >> containment would desirable. >> RAISED BY: Sean Bechhofer, 08/01/07 >> REFERENCE: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2006Nov/ >> 0078.html > > Sean, > > The wording ("represent associations between concept schemes > and particular relationships") seems confusingly terse if > what you want to represent is "the fact that the semantic > relationships between concepts occur within a particular > scheme" [1]. > > For example, I think you mean not just a "particular [type of] > relationship, such as a BT relationship", but "a particular > BT relationship between two concepts". Also, "associations > between concept schemes" per se (e.g., "this concept scheme is > associated with that concept scheme") are not the issue here, > but the sentence could be read this way. > > Maybe something like: "RDF's triple syntax makes it impossible > to associate a particular relationship between two concepts > with a concept scheme within which that relationship is > contained"? Fair comment. I was trying to be terse, but ended up cutting too much. I'll resend an edited version. > A minor point, but I suggest that instead of the date format > "08/01/07" (August 1 in US), we use "2007-01-08". Works for me: mm/dd/yy is *always* wrong in my book :-)))) Sean -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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