Re: SKOS Comment

Dear Johan De Smedt,

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group kindly acknowledges receipt
of your last call comment. We hope to respond by Friday 10 October.

Your comment will be tracked as ISSUE-131. The SWD Issue Tracker is
at:

  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/

With thanks and apologies for the delay in responding,

Alistair Miles

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:20:27PM +0200, Johan De Smedt wrote:
> 
> Dear,
> 
> The mapping constructs are not practical for expressing the mapping between
> concepts in the following use case.
> (maybe this use case is not considered as part of the skos objective, then
> please ignore the remark)
> 
> - ConceptSchema csA, csB, ... are used to classify content
>   Typically csA, csB, ... are large and complex content schemes, used by
> experts and/or expert tools
> - Taxonomies tM, tN, ... are used in a an custom [i.e. target audience
> specific] application
>   Typically tM, tN, are made at hoc and are not used for direct content
> classification (This exclusion need not be absolute)
> - A seach expressed in terms/concepts of tM, tN, ... 
>   must be resolved by a one-way mapping (tN & tM & ...) ->
> boolean-expression-of(csA * csB * ... )
> 
> Multiple of these mappings allow content to be uniquely indexed (indexed
> over csA, cs B, ...)
> While supporting reuse of that indexed content in different search
> strategies for different audiences
> (user query specifies concepts from tM, tN, ...)
> 
> The current mapping does not address such mappings (with a boolean
> expression)
> 
> Kind Regards,
>    Johan De Smedt
> =================
> johan.de-smedt@tenforce.com
> mobile: +32 477 475 934
> =================
> 
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 14:45:19 UTC