Re: Relationships involving collections

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 at 12:04:32, Alasdair Gray <agray@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
wrote
>The problem for us is that we are trying to generate a skos version of
>someone else's vocabulary which should not alter the structure or the
>available terms. First, we should note that there is not a "Gamma rays"
>term in the A&A vocabulary, however, there is a collection of three
>terms that involve gamma rays. As such, the most natural mapping
>declaration for a user who does not understand vocabulary issues is to
>say that the gamma ray collection is an exact match for the gamma ray
>concept in the AOIM vocabulary. When this is translated to skos we now
>believe that each member of the gamma ray collection in the A&A
>vocabulary should be a skos:narrowMatch for the gamma ray concept in
>the AOIM vocabulary, i.e.
>
>aoim:gammaRay
>skos:narrowMatch       aAndA:gammaRayBursts
>                               aAndA:gammaRayObservations
>                               aAndA:gammaRayTheory .

Yes, this seems quite an acceptable thing to do. You are not mapping the
array (collection) as an exact match to a concept in the other scheme,
but are mapping some individual concepts as narrower matches, so the
issue of "mapping between a collection and a concept" does not arise.

My only remaining quibble would be that gamma ray observations and
theory are not "kinds of" gamma rays, so that a related match would be
more appropriate than a narrow match, but when you are dealing with
thesauri that do not conform to the rules I suppose that you needn't be
obliged to make your mapping conform either.

Leonard


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