Re: SKOS question: car models and make

I'm no SKOS expert, but it feels like a meronymy; Accord is part-of HondaCarRange.

Not quite sure how that's modelled in SKOS, skos:narrower?

On 2013-05-06, at 22:54, Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I am trying to model some vocabularies to do with genes and alleles in SKOS.
> 
> For the sake of a wider audience, I can reformulate the question in terms of cars.
> 
> If I go to, e.g.
> http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.shtml
> and enter a year in the form (e.g. 2008)
> 
> then I get a menu which is a choice from a vocabulary of makes, and I can make a selection (e.g. Volkswagen or Honda)
> 
> then I can choose a model (e.g. New Beetle Convertible or Accord )
> 
> Notice that it is an error if the UI presents Accord as an option for Volkswagen
> 
> How should I model this with SKOS?
> 
> With a naive mapping to SKOS from what we currently have, I would get different concept schemes for makes (genes) as opposed to models (alleles), and a property on each model (allele) showing the related (gene).
> 
> What is the 'right way' to do this?
> 
> 
> Jeremy J Carroll
> Principal Architect
> Syapse, Inc.
> 
> 
> 

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