On 14/05/13 10:51, Karen Coyle wrote:

> That said, I freely admit that coming up with a clear statement of the
> relationship between different authority files is not easy given
> differences in cataloging rules worldwide. MADSRDF has
> "hasCloseExternalAuthority," which seems to be a good way of linking
> authority data, although in a very library-specific way. That may be
> more accurate than the over-used OWL:sameAs, which is "different names
> that refer to the same individual," but it won't be as widely understood.

(Re-)Using 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/v1.html#hasCloseExternalAuthority 
seems commendable, and will be widely understood, since it's already 
defined in relation to 
http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.html#closeMatch according 
to http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/index.html#t334 and 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/v1.rdf

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/