[Seavox] Ontology design

[Roy Lowry]

Dear All,

I'm currently populating a parameter discovery ontology to serve a couple of projects and have a quandry.  Consider the example where I have three terms:

pigments
chlorophylls
chlorophyll-a

Do I encode this as a true hierarchy, e.g.

pigments has-narrow-match chlorophylls
chlorophylls has-narrow-match chlorophyll-a

or as a relationship matrix with the additional entry

pigments has-narrow-match chlorophyll-a

Anyone any experience or opinions on this?

Cheers, Roy.