Re: ISSUE-151: Last Call Comment: skos:member definition

But why include the range statement? Who needs it?

Cheers,

Alistair

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:09:37PM +0200, Guus Schreiber wrote:
>
>
> Antoine Isaac wrote:
>>
>> Would a range statement be considered as too big a change for the spec?
>> I would live very comfortably with a range axiom for skos:member, as 
>> the naming of the property is very ambiguous. And we don't think it 
>> will be used with other kind of objects, do we?
>
> I think ading a range constraint should be fine, as we're not really 
> changing the design, only making it more precise. Can you make a concrete 
> proposal for the range constraint you'd like to add to Ref? We would have 
> to weigh carefully whether it does not break some use cases, however.
>
> Guus
>
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>>> Here is a draft response to Erik on ISSUE-151, comments welcome.
>>>
>>> --- begin draft message ---
>>>
>>> Dear Erik,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your helpful comments. In response to the comment below:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:20:03PM +0000, SWD Issue Tracker wrote:
>>>  
>>>> ISSUE-151: Last Call Comment: skos:member definition
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/151
>>>>
>>>> Raised by:  Everyone
>>>> On product: All
>>>>
>>>> Raised by Erik Hennum in [1]:
>>>>
>>>> """
>>>> Should the specification define skos:member as having a range of
>>>> skos:Concept or skos:Collection? Should skos:member have an inverse
>>>> skos:isMemberOf property?
>>>> """
>>>>     
>>>
>>> We have not encountered any requirements to specify the range of
>>> skos:member. We propose to make no change to the current draft,
>>> leaving the range unspecified, allowing greater flexibility in the use
>>> of the SKOS collections framework, for example with third party
>>> extensions. Can you live with this?
>>>
>>> Similarly we have not encountered a requirement for an inverse of
>>> skos:member. We propose to make no change, can you live with this?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Jun/0103.html
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>

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