skosbroaderTransitive

skosbroaderTransitive is a property within the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) specification. It is defined as a transitive property of SKOS concepts. Transitivity means that if concept A is broader than concept B, and concept B is broader than concept C, then by definition, concept A is also considered broader than concept C. This property is derived from the skos:broader property, which links a concept to a more general concept.

The purpose of skosbroaderTransitive is to facilitate efficient traversal of hierarchical concept relationships within a SKOS vocabulary. Instead of having to follow a chain of skos:broader relationships, a system can infer the broader relationship directly between A and C using skosbroaderTransitive. This can significantly improve the performance of applications that need to understand the full scope of a concept's hierarchy, such as in search or navigation functionalities.

SKOS defines skosbroaderTransitive as the transitive closure of skos:broader. This means that if a resource is related to another resource via skos:broader, and that other resource is related to a third resource via skos:broader, then the first resource is also considered related to the third resource via skosbroaderTransitive. This property is crucial for understanding the hierarchical structure of knowledge organization systems represented in SKOS. It is typically used by reasoners or inference engines that process SKOS data.