RE: [SKOS]: [ISSUE 44] BroaderNarrowerSemantics

Antoine,
 
I'm totally happy with the hints for specialization as defined in section 4.7 [2]. I would even advocate for these properties to be added as part of the skos properties as shown in [4]. However, I do disagree with part of the definition given in section 2.3 for broader and narrower. 
 
I hope this clarifies my point.
 
Quentin

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From: Antoine Isaac [mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl]
Sent: Wed 16/01/2008 13:27
To: Reul, Q. H.
Cc: W3C SWD WG
Subject: Re: [SKOS]: [ISSUE 44] BroaderNarrowerSemantics



Hi Quentin

Just a doubt your comment raise: does your first comment's being based
on the Primer means that you're not happy with the hints for
specialization that are present in section 4.7 of [2]?

Antoine
> Hi all,
>
> The comments below are based on my review [1] of the SKOS primer [2],
> but are quite relevant to this thread.
>
> 1. SKOS primer [2] describes that skos:broader and skos:narrower can be
> used to create links "between one whole and its parts". This
> representation would allow many different type of hierarchies to be
> created without formally defining these differences. In same
> applications, this would be totally acceptable. However, in some case
> could raise interoperability issues. I like the ideas suggested in [3]
> and [4], where sub-properties are created to represent different
> aspects. 
>
> 2. I would agree with Margherita [5] to use skos:hasBroader and
> skos:hasNarrower to remove any confusion about the intended meaning of
> the property for people that are not used to convention in thesaurus
> circles (e.g. BS8723-2, para.8.3.1).
>
> Quentin
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Jan/0078.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOS/DraftPrimer
> [3]
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/1.0/guide/20040504/#3.9
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/extensions/spec/
> [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Jan/0075.html
>
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