- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:57 +0100
- To: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
I would propose to close immediately this issue, since it is contained in ISSUE-44, and treat it as a reminder that no resolution for ISSUE-44 can close it if it does not address reflexivity. Antoine > ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive > > http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/69 > > Raised by: Alistair Miles > On product: SKOS > > 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? > > > > >
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