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