CredentialEngine / CatalogingGuidance

This repository is for recording issues around cataloging credentials including discretionary decision. The focus is on the cataloger--the person creating descriptions.
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When to use skos:related and skos:relatedMatch #8

Open stuartasutton opened 5 years ago

stuartasutton commented 5 years ago

Skos has a property called skos:related that is used for pointing to a term that is semantically related but not in a broader/narrower sense. It has a super property of skos:semanticRelation.

There is a property skos:relatedMatch that has super properties skos:mappingRelation AND skos:related. This "match" property is used in CTDL for pointing to a concept in a different concept scheme that is not just "related", but a close match in terms of identity.

The skos:related property is for use in pointing to something that would be considered significantly "related", e.g., "U.S. Civil War" might be skos:related "Abraham Lincoln", but would certainly not be considered skos:relatedMatch (i.e., they don't share an identity).