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It was decided that we will not use skos:Concept for FIBO. There are various reasons.
- There is a separate effort to convert FIBO into a SKOS vocabulary. If we also used skos:Concept in FIBO proper, that would cause confusion. (Dean Allemang)
FIBO is about representing concepts, to start creating instances or subclassed of skos:Concept could suggest that some things in FIBO are concepts and some things are not. (Mike Bennett)
- skos:Concept is an extremely broad class that can be used in a large variety of ways. Thus, is is highly imprecise in its meaning. We chose instead to use a more precise concept. ( MichaelUschold )
Instead we will either create classes directly in owl, or we will us the existing FIBO classification vocabulary:
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