FW: missing skos:related terms in IVOA Thesaurus

Alasdair Gray agray at dcs.gla.ac.uk
Wed Nov 14 02:55:24 PST 2007


Sorry, forgot to include everyone in my reply.

Alasdair

Alasdair J G Gray
Research Associate: Explicator Project
http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk
Computer Science, University of Glasgow
0141 330 6292


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alasdair Gray
> Sent: 14 November 2007 10:46
> To: 'Frederic V. Hessman'
> Subject: RE: missing skos:related terms in IVOA Thesaurus
> 
> Hi
> 
> Again comments in line preceded by [AG]
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-semantics at eso.org [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org] On
> Behalf Of Frederic V. Hessman
> Sent: 14 November 2007 08:19
> To: IVOA semantics
> Subject: Re: missing skos:related terms in IVOA Thesaurus
> 
> Another "oops" - I forgot to mirror the RT links automatically like
> I've done the BT's and NT's (frankly was mostly worrried about the
> latter, since they constitute a more formal ontological hierarchy).
> 
> [AG] We need to be careful about our terminology here. The hierarchy
> defined by a thesaurus using the broader and narrower relationships is
> not an ontological hierarchy.
> 
> I suppose this should be done?
> 
> [AG] I think so, and the rule is virtually the same, see
> http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Vocabularies/inferRelationships.n3
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alasdair
> 
> 
> 
> Alasdair J G Gray
> Research Associate: Explicator Project
> http://explicator.dcs.gla.ac.uk
> Computer Science, University of Glasgow
> 0141 330 6292



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