RE: [SKOS] Transitive broader and ISSUE-56 (was The return of ISSUE-44 ) from Daniel Rubin on 2008-01-15 (public-swd-wg@w3.org from January 2008)

From: Daniel Rubin <rubin@med.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:44:37 -0800
To: "Sini, Margherita (KCEW)" <Margherita.Sini@fao.org>, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
Cc: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>,SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>, Jon Phipps <jphipps@madcreek.com>
Message-Id: <6.2.5.6.2.20080114184316.02ddb6c8@med.stanford.edu>

I do not think that creating the sub-properties 
skos:broaderTransitive and skos:narrowerTransitive makes SKOS too 
complex. I don't think we need much more hierarchy in the relations than that.

Daniel

At 09:34 AM 1/14/2008, Sini, Margherita (KCEW) wrote:
>I do not really like the solution of creating new sub-properties
>skos:broaderTransitive and skos:narrowerTransitive and make them transitive,
>because this means we may need to have many other cases, and this may go
>agains the "simplicity" we mention is good to keep in SKOS. But if any
>specification should be done, this is the correct way to go, I agree.

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