Adding close match relationships with external resources eg. Wikidata #1980
Description
This thread breaks out the side discussion from issue #1976 into its own issue.
From that issue, recommending the creation of a ShortStory type in bib.schema.org (which is now part of PR #1979 ):
Seems to be a close match at Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49084 - we should have some best practice to include that in our machine-readable definitions
As to close match. We could introduce a default style for referencing this in the rdfs:comment.
My preference would be to add a new recognised triple in the rdfa files indicating the relationship.
Two options for predicate would be either skos:closeMatch; or we add a new meta.schema.org property with a name such as closeMatch or similarTo (maybe itself defined as being closeMatch to skos:closeMatch) a bit convoluted but more schema like.
Whichever, we could then add a formatted reference to term displays in the same way as we currently do for inverseOf
I would love it if we could begin displaying relationships against Wikidata.
I am OK with skos:closeMatch since it skips the transitive check.
As far as placement... if we begin down the path of using Meta properties, then it could lend itself well to allowing others to suggest and maintain SKOS alignment of Schema.org as well. Then again, it could open a can of worms, but those would be very useful little worms...SKOS folks could actually help contribute more Meta and even help us maintain it.
I totally agree with @thadguidry that it would be great to define & display relationships against Wikidata, and other authoritative definition sources.
To expand a little I was suggesting the potential for a new meta property, probably schema:closeMatch with a domainIncludes of schema:Class, schema:Property, schema:Enumeration and rangeIncludes of schema:URL and/or Thing. Somewhat recursively, that property definition would include a schema:closeMatch reference to skos:closeMatch.
The reasoning behind that suggestion being that it would maintain the traditional arms-length relationship between Schema and other vocabularies, and thus provide some restraint on the number of unhelpful worms escaping from this particular can, whilst making it possible to infer what is needed.