Semantic equivalence (computing)
In comptuer metadata, Semantic Equivalence is a declaration that two data elements from different vocabularies contain data that has similar meaning. There are three types of semantic equivalance statements:
- Class or concept equivalence - a statement that to high level concepts have similar meaing.
- Property or attribute equivalence - a statement that two properties, descriptors or attributes of a classes have similar meaning.
- Instance equivalence - a statement that two instances of data are the same or refer to the same instace.