[tdwg-content] Darwin Core Proposal - term content recommendations to comments

Paul J. Morris mole at morris.net
Thu Feb 5 18:46:33 CET 2015


Yes.  

iao brings in a number of imports with significant implications and a
particular high level view of the world. 

-Paul

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:21:33 -0300
John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Does anyone have similar concerns about iao:example?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Paul J. Morris <mole at morris.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:17:58 -0500
> > Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > But  skos:note and its subproperties (including skos:example) can
> > > take literals or references [1].  To me, that weighs   more than
> > > the baggage of minting two new terms.
> >
> > Also, SKOS, unless care is taken to import the Owl-DL version,
> > brings you into Owl-Full, with undesirable consequences for those
> > who wish to do reasoning.  In early versions of dwcFP, we did
> > include SKOS terms, but removed them because of the consequences
> > for reasoning.
> >
> > SKOS has some nice terms, reuse is a nice idea, but it comes with
> > significant knowledge engineering consequences.
> >
> > -Paul
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Paul J. Morris
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Harvard University Herbaria/Museum of Comparative Zoölogy
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