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

Here is a draft response to Erik on ISSUE-151, comments welcome.

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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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