ISSUE-69

BroaderIrreflexive

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SKOS

Raised by:

Alistair Miles

Opened on:

2008-01-16

Description:

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?

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-01-16)
2. Re: ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-16)
3. Re: ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-23)
4. Comment: ISSUE-69 (from rde2@utk.edu on 2008-02-10)
5. [SKOS] Issues Review [From Alistair] (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-02-17)
6. [Fwd: [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
7. [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
8. [SKOS] Issue owners - preparation for Washington (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2008-04-15)
9. Re: [SKOS] Issue owners - preparation for Washington (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-04-21)
10. SKOS Reference Review Response (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-08-22)
11. RE: SKOS Reference Review Response (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-08-25)
12. RE: SKOS Reference Review Response (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-08-26)

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