Re: Mapping Relations

Hi Helmut

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:18:29PM +0200, Helmut Nagy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> e.g i got an Concept "Vienna" and i want to make the following mapping:
> 
> "Vienna" skos:exactMatch http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vienna

Possibly a reasonable thing to do. Personally, if it's useful for you to
do this, then I would just go for it. If it turns out to have unexpected
consequences, then you can always change later. Might also be worth asking
the dbpedia folks if and how they use SKOS.

> skos:it? t-shirts? :)

Sorry, Danbri and I had a discussion a while back about ideas for a new inverse
property pair in SKOS that would be used for linking from SKOS concepts to
"real things" like people, mountain ranges, etc., and back again. Danbri wanted
to call the properties skos:it and skos:as, e.g., <mySkosConceptOfVienna>
skos:it <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vienna>. Danbri also thought this would
be a great marketing ploy, as you could print t-shirts with "skos:it!" on the
front (meaning like, if you've got a thesaurus, SKOS it!) ... unfortunately
there wasn't enough desire for something like this in the SKOS reference
at the time, and it was hard to figure out what the semantics should be,
so we left it.

It would be interesting to see if anyone else is doing this kind of linking
into and out of SKOS concept schemes, and if so, what properties they're
using. Anyone?

Cheers

Alistair

> 
> Cheers
> hel.
> 
> 
> > Hi Helmut,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:51:38PM +0200, Helmut Nagy wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> i got one question, should skos:mappingRelations only be used to map to skos:Concepts of a different skos:conceptScheme or would it also be consistent to use skos:mappingRelations to map to linked data like DBpedia or FreeBase?
> > 
> > I'm not sure, I think it depends what type of resource you want to map
> > to. What assertions are made by DBpedia and FreeBase for the resources you
> > want to map to?
> > 
> > Danbri: the return of skos:it? (we should have printed those t-shirts,
> > then it would have definitely gone in the spec... :)
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Alistair 
> > 
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> hel.
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Alistair Miles
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