Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Poly-hierarchies and the two proposals

Poli-hierarchies: yes, it may create confusions and mix concepts
(organisms, such as "Apis mellifera capensis" over categories such as "Queen
bees")... but unfortunately this is what we would end up to have (and is fine
for now). The tools should takes care to visualize or not all the common
names or scientific names or exclude part of them.

After a deeper analysis i found that in your picture we may have problems in
agrovoc or in the concept server as we are planning. Therefore I am proposing
2 possible solutions:

3a) mix the hierarchies in order to have a unique hierarchy.

3b) keep hierarchies separated, in this case just relate concepts that may
belongs to the 2 hierarchies by RT (refined appropriately).

Personally I like better case 3b, which is similar to consider the
potato-plant organism different from the potato-fruit organism.... so
consider the 'bee' organisms related the the 'bees' as a specific category of
insects. I like very much this idea. - Ms. Sini Margherita

Even the other team members voted for option 3b.

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