ISSUE-187

Last Call Comment: skos:mappingRelation and skos:semanticRelation

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SKOS

Raised by:

Alistair Miles

Opened on:

2008-12-02

Description:

Raised by Bernard Vatant in [1]:

"""
Just realized something I find a bit weird

To begin with skos:mappingRelation and skos:semanticRelation seem to 
have somehow distinct usages, the former being used for cross-vocabulary 
relations, and the latter for relations inside a vocabulary.

But since skos:broadMatch has became a subproperty of  skos:broader, it 
is de facto a subproperty of  skos:semanticRelation.
Same for skos:narrowMatch and skos:relatedMatch.

Some mapping relations are now semantic relations, and I have no problem 
with that ... But why are poor skos:closeMatch ans skos:exactMatch 
excluded from the promotion? Seems to me, there is as much "semantics" 
in a close or exact match than in broad, narrow and related match(es).

Why not make simply skos:mappingRelation a subproperty of 
skos:semanticRelation ?
"""

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/2008Oct/0031.html

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-187: Last Call Comment: skos:mappingRelation and skos:semanticRelation (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-12-02)
2. Re: ISSUE-187: Last Call Comment: skos:mappingRelation and skos:semanticRelation (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-02)
3. [SKOS] Update on Last Call Comments (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-12-02)

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