ISSUE-68

RelatedIrreflexive

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SKOS

Raised by:

Alistair Miles

Opened on:

2008-01-16

Description:

Currently, skos:related is *not* defined as an irreflexive property.

Therefore, graphs such as:

<A> skos:related <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:related 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:related be normatively irreflexive?

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-68: RelatedIrreflexive (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-01-16)
2. Re: ISSUE-68: RelatedIrreflexive (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-16)
3. [SKOS] Issues Review [From Alistair] (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-02-17)
4. [Fwd: [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
5. [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
6. [SKOS] Issue owners - preparation for Washington (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2008-04-15)
7. Re: [SKOS] Issue owners - preparation for Washington (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-04-21)

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