skos:broader/narrower and skos:related clashes in IVOAT

From: Douglas Burke <dburke-at-cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:30:34 -0500 (EST)

Rick,

I've just noticed that there are a number of concepts that refer to another concept as both skos:broader and skos:related (and similarly for skos:narrower and skos:related). I'm guessing that this isn't desireable.

For example, from "IVOAT Thesaurus - Version Wed Nov 14 18:13:25 2007" we have

	<skos:Concept rdf:about="#cDGalaxies">
		<skos:broader rdf:resource="#YerkesClassification"/>
		<skos:related rdf:resource="#YerkesClassification"/>
	        .. other elements left out ..
	</skos:Concept>

I've included a full list of such concepts below (although the output is a bit verbose).

Ta,
Doug

The following list was generated by

 % cwm \
  http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~hessman/rdf/IVOAT/IVOAT.rdf \   --filter=http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~dburke/playground/term-clashes.n3

     @prefix : <../IVOAT#> .
     @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .


:AeStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:broader =
'HerbigAeBeStars'" .

:BGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:BalmerContinuum skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'hydrogenSpectrum'" .

:BalmerSeries skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'hydrogenSpectrum'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'HAlpha'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'HBeta'" .


:BeStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:broader =
'HerbigAeBeStars'" .

:BvPhotometry skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'twoColorPhotometry'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'JohnsonPhotometry'"
.

:CIEmission skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'carbonLines'" .

:ChandrasekharMass skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'mass'" .

:ChandrasekharSchoenbergLimit skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader
and skos:related = 'mass'" .

:DGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:EGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:EpGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'YerkesClassification'" .

:GalacticLongitude skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:broader = 'longitude'" .

:GalacticRotation skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'galaxyRotationCurves'" .

:HAlpha skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'BalmerSeries'" .

:HBeta skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'BalmerSeries'" .

:HerbigAeBeStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:broader = 'AeStars'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:broader = 'BeStars'" .


:IGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:JohnsonPhotometry skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'BvPhotometry'" .

:LGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:LymanAlpha skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'LymanSeries'" .

:LymanBeta skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'LymanSeries'" .

:LymanSeries skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'hydrogenSpectrum'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'LymanAlpha'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'LymanBeta'" .


:NGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'", "has skos:broader and skos:related = 'compactGalaxies'" .
:PaschenSeries skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'hydrogenSpectrum'" .

:PfundSeries skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'hydrogenSpectrum'" .

:SGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'YerkesClassification'" .

:SxArietisStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'alpha2CanumVenaticorumStars'" .

:TSubdwarfs skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'subdwarfs'" .

:YerkesClassification skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'BGalaxies'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'DGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'EGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'EpGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'IGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'LGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'NGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'SGalaxies'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'cDGalaxies'" .


:ZCamelopardalisStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'dwarfNovae'" .

:alpha2CanumVenaticorumStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower
and skos:related = 'SxArietisStars'" .

:amplifiers skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related
= 'microchannelPlates'" .

:arcs skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'luminousArcs'" .

:artificialSatellites skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'orbitingObservatories'" .

:brightStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'highLuminosityStars'" .

:cDGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related
= 'YerkesClassification'",

                "has skos:broader and skos:related = 'massiveGalaxies'" .


:carbonLines skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'CIEmission'" .

:celestialEquator skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'equatorialCoordinateSystem'" .

:circumstellarDisks skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'circumstellarMatter'" .

:circumstellarMatter skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'circumstellarDisks'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'circumstellarShells'" .

:circumstellarShells skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'circumstellarMatter'" .

:compactGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'NGalaxies'" .

:coronalMassEjections skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'massLoss'" .

:correlation skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'interferometricCorrelation'" .

:dwarfNovae skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related
= 'ZCamelopardalisStars'" .

:eclipticLongitude skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:broader = 'longitude'" .

:electromagneticRadiation skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower
and skos:broader = 'electromagneticRadiation'" .

:emissionSpectra skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'freeBoundEmission'" .

:equatorialCoordinateSystem skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower
and skos:related = 'celestialEquator'" .

:extraterrestrialLife skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'life'" .

:freeBoundEmission skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'emissionSpectra'" .

:galaxyRotationCurves skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'GalacticRotation'" .

:gammaRayLines skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'gammaRayRadiation'" .

:gammaRayRadiation skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'gammaRayLines'" .

:generalTheoryOfRelativity skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader
and skos:related = 'gravitation'" .

:gravitation skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'generalTheoryOfRelativity'" .

:gravitationalLensing skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'gravitationalMicrolensing'" .

:gravitationalMicrolensing skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader
and skos:related = 'gravitationalLensing'" .

:highLuminosityStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'brightStars'" .

:hydrogen skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'molecularHydrogen'" .

:hydrogenSpectrum skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'BalmerContinuum'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'BalmerSeries'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'LymanSeries'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'PaschenSeries'",
                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'PfundSeries'" .


:interferometricCorrelation skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader
and skos:related = 'correlation'" .

:life skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'extraterrestrialLife'" .

:longitude skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:broader
= 'GalacticLongitude'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:broader = 'eclipticLongitude'"
.

:luminousArcs skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'arcs'" .

:majorAxis skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'semimajorAxis'" .

:mass skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'ChandrasekharMass'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'ChandrasekharSchoenbergLimit'" .

:massLoss skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'coronalMassEjections'",

                "has skos:narrower and skos:related = 'stellarWinds'" .


:massiveGalaxies skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'cDGalaxies'" .

:microchannelPlates skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'amplifiers'" .

:minorAxis skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'semiminorAxis'" .

:molecularHydrogen skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'hydrogen'" .

:novae skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'preNovae'" .

:orbitingObservatories skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'artificialSatellites'" .

:photography skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'spectrography'" .

:preNovae skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'novae'" .

:preSupernovae skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'supernovae'" .

:semimajorAxis skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'majorAxis'" .

:semiminorAxis skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'minorAxis'" .

:spectrography skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'photography'" .

:starspots skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related
= 'sunspots'" .

:stellarWinds skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'massLoss'" .

:subdwarfs skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related
= 'TSubdwarfs'" .

:sunspots skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and skos:related =
'starspots'" .

:supernovae skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related
= 'preSupernovae'" .

:time skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and skos:related =
'timeMeasurement'" .

:timeMeasurement skos:editorialNote "has skos:broader and
skos:related = 'time'" .

:twoColorPhotometry skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:related = 'BvPhotometry'" .

:visualBinaryStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:broader = 'wideBinaryStars'" .

:wideBinaryStars skos:editorialNote "has skos:narrower and
skos:broader = 'visualBinaryStars'" . Received on 2007-11-14Z20:31:23