ISSUE-44

BroaderNarrowerSemantics

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SKOS

Raised by:

Sean Bechhofer

Opened on:

2007-06-15

Description:

What are the semantics of skos:broader and skos:narrower? There are several open
questions:

 * Are they transitive? Intransitive? Or can the application choose?
 * Are they reflexive? Irreflexive? Or can the application choose?
 * Should the transitive closure be irreflexive (i.e. a cycle is a
contradiction)? Or can the application choose?

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-44: BroaderNarrowerSemantics (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2007-06-15)
2. Re: ISSUE-44: BroaderNarrowerSemantics (from dlrubin@stanford.edu on 2007-06-15)
3. Re: ISSUE-44: BroaderNarrowerSemantics (from diego.berrueta@fundacionctic.org on 2007-06-21)
4. [SKOS] central issues (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2007-06-26)
5. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from bernard.vatant@mondeca.com on 2007-06-26)
6. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2007-06-27)
7. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from bernard.vatant@mondeca.com on 2007-06-27)
8. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2007-07-02)
9. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from jphipps@madcreek.com on 2007-07-02)
10. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2007-07-03)
11. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from jphipps@madcreek.com on 2007-07-03)
12. Re: [SKOS] central issues (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2007-07-04)
13. [ALL] SWD face-to-face - draft agenda (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2007-08-22)
14. RE: [ALL] SWD face-to-face - draft agenda (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2007-08-24)
15. Re: [ALL] SWD face-to-face - draft agenda (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2007-08-27)
16. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from bernard.vatant@mondeca.com on 2008-01-10)
17. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-10)
18. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-10)
19. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-10)
20. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-10)
21. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-10)
22. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-10)
23. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-10)
24. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from sesuncedu@gmail.com on 2008-01-10)
25. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from sesuncedu@gmail.com on 2008-01-10)
26. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-01-10)
27. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from bernard.vatant@mondeca.com on 2008-01-10)
28. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-10)
29. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-10)
30. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-09)
31. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from sesuncedu@gmail.com on 2008-01-09)
32. [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-09)
33. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Dec 11 2007 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2007-12-10)
34. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-10)
35. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from bernard.vatant@mondeca.com on 2008-01-10)
36. Re: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-12)
37. AW: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from l.svensson@d-nb.de on 2008-01-14)
38. Re: AW: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-14)
39. AW: AW: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from l.svensson@d-nb.de on 2008-01-14)
40. Re: AW: [SKOS] The return of ISSUE-44 (was Re: TR : SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007) (from rubin@med.stanford.edu on 2008-01-14)
41. RE: [SKOS] Transitive broader and ISSUE-56 (was The return of ISSUE-44 ) (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-01-14)
42. [ALL] agenda 15 Jan telecon 1600 UTC (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-01-14)
43. Re: AW: AW: [SKOS] Transitive broader and ISSUE-56 (was The return of ISSUE-44 ) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-15)
44. RE: [ALL] agenda 15 Jan telecon 1600 UTC (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-01-15)
45. Re: [ALL] agenda 15 Jan telecon 1600 UTC (from ekendall@sandsoft.com on 2008-01-15)
46. RE: AW: AW: [SKOS] Transitive broader and ISSUE-56 (was The return of ISSUE-44 ) (from johan.de-smedt@tenforce.com on 2008-01-14)
47. Re: [SKOS] proposed resolution for Issue 4 - BroaderNarrowerSemantics (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-16)
48. ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-01-16)
49. ISSUE-70: BroaderCycles (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-01-16)
50. Re: ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-16)
51. Re: ISSUE-70: BroaderCycles (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-17)
52. [SKOS] SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 18 January 2008 (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2008-01-18)
53. RE: [SKOS] SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 23 December 2007 (from A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk on 2008-01-18)
54. RE: [SKOS] SKOS Reference Editor's Draft 18 January 2008 (from q.reul@abdn.ac.uk on 2008-01-18)
55. [ALL] Agenda - Jan 22 2008 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de on 2008-01-21)
56. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Jan 22 2008 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-01-22)
57. Re: [ALL] Agenda - Jan 22 2008 SWD telecon - 1600 UTC (from ekendall@sandsoft.com on 2008-01-22)
58. Re: ISSUE-69: BroaderIrreflexive (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-01-23)
59. [ALL] agenda 29 Jan telecon -- 16:00 UTC (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-01-28)
60. Re: [ALL] agenda 29 Jan telecon -- 16:00 UTC (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-01-28)
61. Meeting Record: 2008-01-29 telecon (from sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk on 2008-01-31)
62. Several emails to reply to (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-02-04)
63. [SKOS] ISSUE-44 (was: Suggestion for SKOS FAQ) (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-05-14)
64. Re: [SKOS] ISSUE-44 (was: Suggestion for SKOS FAQ) (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-05-29)
65. RE: [SKOS] ISSUE-44 (was: Suggestion for SKOS FAQ) (from johan.de-smedt@tenforce.com on 2008-05-29)

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