- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:08:54 +0100
- To: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Dear all, Sorry, backtracking from my previous mail: at the time I wrote it, I had not anticipated it was planned to close ISSUE-44 without addressing all its initial content. So this ISSUE-69 shall not be closed right now. Antoine > > I would propose to close immediately this issue, since it is contained > in ISSUE-44, and treat it as a reminder that no resolution for > ISSUE-44 can close it if it does not address reflexivity. > > Antoine >> ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive >> >> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/69 >> >> Raised by: Alistair Miles >> On product: SKOS >> >> This is a sub-issue of ISSUE-44. >> >> Currently, skos:broader is *not* defined as an irreflexive property. >> >> Therefore, graphs such as: >> >> <A> skos:broader <A> . >> >> ... are consistent with the SKOS data model. >> >> However, such a graph would never be found in a representation of a >> thesaurus or classification scheme, and if it did, would probably >> indicate some sort of error. >> >> If skos:broader were formally defined as an irreflexive property in >> the normative specification, this would endorse stronger checking of >> instance data against the SKOS data model, which would probably be >> both useful and appropriate to most SKOS use cases. >> >> Should skos:broader be normatively irreflexive? >> >> >> >> >> > > >
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