Re: skos:closeMatch and skos:exactMatch from Tom Morris on 2023-01-06 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from January 2023)

From: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 21:57:21 -0500
To: Michael DeBellis <mdebellissf@gmail.com>
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAE9vqEHOifvu6ZbYkmKydGc7BQEroddnpUEg3xvOVS8V=n0ASw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 6:14 PM Michael DeBellis <mdebellissf@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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?
>

You wouldn't have two identical concepts in the same scheme. Synonyms can
be done using altLabels on the same concept.

Tom

Received on Friday, 6 January 2023 02:57:42 UTC