Guideline for mapping and aligning with other taxonomies and vocabularies - OntoRep/COnCEPT GitHub Wiki

To ensure interoperability, the concepts of the COnDO ontology are mapped to the existing ontologies both national and international. This helps to search design information classified with other conceptual schemes and correctly categorize with ConDO ontology. The alignment is also mean to help se of COnDO with other ontologies. For example one can use either foaf:Person or pimo:Contact to define a con:personalProfile depending on which is better understood by the platform in use.

COnDO labels have exact meaning inside the vocabulary, for example Domain has a specific meaning as a classification of ProductFunctions (i.e. it is domain of product functions) with more specific domains as KitchenWare or Fashion. Because of this simple matching of COnDO labels with other concept schemes does not always provide good resus. SKOS provides several properties that map concepts between different concept schemes. Alignment of COnDO with other concept schemes is supported with the following SKOS properties:

• skos:exactMatch is used to link two concepts, indicating a high degree of confidence that the concepts can be used interchangeably across a wide range of information retrieval applications. skos:exactMatch is a transitive property, and is a sub-property of skos:closeMatch.

• skos:closeMatch is used to link two concepts that are sufficiently similar that they can be used interchangeably in some information retrieval applications. In order to avoid the possibility of "compound errors" when combining mappings across more than two concept schemes, skos:closeMatch is not declared to be a transitive property.

• skos:relatedMatch is used to state just an associative mapping link between two conceptual resources in different concept schemes.

• skos:narrowMatch and skow:broaderMatch are used to state a hierarchical mapping link between two conceptual resources in different concept schemes similar in use to skos:narrower and skos:broader inside a SKOS concept scheme (e.g. ex:mammals skos:broader ex:animals).