ISSUE-73

ExactMatchDisjoints

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SKOS

Raised by:

Alistair Miles

Opened on:

2008-01-16

Description:

Currently, the property skos:exactMatch is not stated as disjoint with any of
the other concept mapping properties (or with any of the semantic relation
properties). 

Therefore e.g. the graph below is consistent with the SKOS data model.

<A> 
  skos:exactMatch <B> ; 
  skos:broadMatch <B> ;  
  skos:exactMatch <C> ; 
  skos:relatedMatch <C> .

Intuitively, an exact mapping link asserts something fundamentally different
from a hierarchical or associative link. Therefore, it might be reasonable and
useful to define skos:exactMatch as disjoint with skos:broadMatch (and/or
skos:broader), and disjoint with skos:relatedMatch (and/or skos:related). Should
these disjointness conditions be stated in the normative specification?

Related emails:

1. ISSUE-73: ExactMatchDisjoints (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2008-01-16)
2. Several emails to reply to (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-02-04)
3. [SKOS] On ISSUE-71 ParallelMappingVocabulary and ISSUE-74 MappingPropertyConventions [From Alistair Miles!] (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-02-17)
4. Re: [SKOS] On ISSUE-71 ParallelMappingVocabulary and ISSUE-74 MappingPropertyConventions (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-02-17)
5. RE: [SKOS] On ISSUE-71 ParallelMappingVocabulary and ISSUE-74 MappingPropertyConventions (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-02-18)
6. [SKOS] Closing ISSUE-71 ParallelMappingVocabulary (from aisaac@few.vu.nl on 2008-02-19)
7. Re: [SKOS] Closing ISSUE-71 ParallelMappingVocabulary (from dlrubin@stanford.edu on 2008-02-19)
8. [Fwd: [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
9. [SKOS] Issues Review (from alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk on 2008-02-21)
10. meeting record: 2008-07-01 SWD WG telecon (from jphipps@madcreek.com on 2008-07-08)
11. Summer telecons [was: meeting record: 2008-07-01 SWD WG telecon] (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-07-09)
12. RE: Summer telecons [was: meeting record: 2008-07-01 SWD WG telecon] (from Margherita.Sini@fao.org on 2008-07-09)
13. Re: Summer telecons [was: meeting record: 2008-07-01 SWD WG telecon] (from schreiber@cs.vu.nl on 2008-07-09)

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