Mapping versus re-using from John Madden on 2011-05-12 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from May 2011)

From: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:58:38 -0400
To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Cc: Mary Kennedy <mary.kennedy@nih.gov>
Message-Id: <F8EC90ED-797F-4BEE-9076-60CFDC878EFA@duke.edu>

I'm looking for some guidance on choice of mechanisms for interlinking concept schemes.

 In the Primer, following the discussion of mapping (Section 3.1)  there is discussion (Section 3.2) of re-using concepts by asserting 

	ex1:A-Concept-In-Scheme-1   skos:inScheme  ex2:Scheme-2

Section 3.2 also discusses owl:imports as a third strategy for interlinking.

Are there any writings available that elaborate a bit more than the Primer on the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy (mapping vs. re-use vs. importing) and "best practices" for when to prefer one strategy over the others?

Thanks!

John

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