Wednesday, December 01, 2004

SkosDev/SkosConcept - ESW Wiki 

SkosDev/SkosConcept - ESW Wiki
"Interpretation of a resource of type skos:Concept
The question is, if I state:
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>.

<http://www.example.com/aURI> a skos:Concept.

... what does that statement mean? I.e. what does it imply about the thing that the URI http://www.example.com/aURI denotes?

One option for the skos:Concept class is to say that, when involved in a statement such as the above, it implies that the given URI denotes an abstract concept. But abstract concepts only exist in a person's head, as patterns in the mind (or something like that). So does this URI denote a concept in my head only? Is everybody who uses this URI now referring to an idea in my head, or an idea in their own heads? How do I know their idea is the same as mine?"

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