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OASIS Lexicographic Infrastructure Data Model and API (LEXIDMA) TC: A repository designed for use in development of TC chartered work products and test suites. https://github.com/oasis-tcs/lexidma
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Should sameAs really be called sameAs? #100

Closed michmech closed 4 months ago

michmech commented 6 months ago

(Submitted by David Lindemann)

One suggestion: Isn’t skos:exactMatch better than owl:sameAs for expressing that a POS tag matches to a lexinfo or OLiA or whatever URI? owl:sameAs means that two entities are exactly the same, including all statements made about them (=including all triples with one of the two as subjects). That is not the case here, so I think skos:exactMatch is better; that just claims that two URI represent entities describing the same thing, allowing different statements for the two. I think this distinction is important for machine reasoning. For example, in Wikdiata, owl:sameAs is used for internal redirects, when a user merges items (for the machine: instead of looking at entity A, you can look at entity B, and assume that every single statement about B is true for A as well).

jmccrae commented 6 months ago

Yes, probably exactMatch has better semantics as there may be structural restrictions that we do not want to import

DavidFatDavidF commented 5 months ago

REQUIRED implementation of sameAs in RDF is exactMatch Agreed in meeting on 4th April 2024