- From: Michael DeBellis <mdebellissf@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 15:12:00 -0800
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CALGFikfCeY1NhksH7xr0ZWqpXuiSyq-N3F99j11FEgoBQhe3Jg@mail.gmail.com>
I have (hopefully) one final question about SKOS. My understanding is that all the sub-properties of skos:mappingRelation are meant to map between two different ConceptSchemes. In the SKOS Reference <https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#mapping> it says: The SKOS mapping properties are skos:closeMatch, skos:exactMatch, > skos:broadMatch, skos:narrowMatch and skos:relatedMatch. These properties > are used to state mapping (alignment) links between *SKOS concepts in > different concept schemes*, where the links are inherent in the meaning > of the linked concepts. My question is about skos:closeMatch and skos:exactMatch. For all the other mapping properties there are equivalent properties that aren't sub-properties of skos:mappingRelation. So if Animal and Mammal are in the same Concept Scheme and I want to assert that ex1:Animal skos:narrower ex1:Mammal I can do that and if they were in different Concept Schemes I would say ex1:Animal skos:narrowerMatch ex2:Mammal. If I have two synonym Concepts in two different ConceptSchemes: ex1:TheMorningStar and ex2:TheEveneningStar I can say ex1:TheMorningStar skos:exactMatch ex2:TheEveningStar. But what if they are in the *same *Concept Scheme? If I want to say ex1:TheMorningStar is identical to ex1:TheEveningStar there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. Similarly if I want to say they are close but not quite exact synonyms (e.g., ex1:Customer and ex1:Client) What am I missing? Cheers, Michael https://www.michaeldebellis.com/blog
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