Re: Publishing the Mapping Table (was minutes of 2009-03-10 teleconference)

Dear Felix,

> everything we have done so far, including the mapping table, the toy 
> implementations of the API and the formalization example in SKOS etc., 
> are one way mapping, mostly using properties available in XMP as the 
> target of the mapping. That is, property A-1 from format A can be mapped 
> to property XMP-x. So far I have not seen anybody in the Working Group 
> asking for a two way mapping, so I regard this as an unspoken consensus 
> that we are working "only" on the one way mapping.

This is *not* exactly true.
In the case of the toy example of a possible mapping formalization in 
SKOS, we have a two-ways mapping, since for example, the skos:related 
property is owl:symmetric [1]. The skos:mappingRelation might be 
reflexive, symmetric too.

   Raphaël

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/

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Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 11:33:16 UTC