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TAPIR doesn't specify an official way to "map" equivalent concepts from different conceptual schemas. Ideally this should be provided by a ConceptNameServer implemented as a complete service, but such service doesn't exist yet. 

This page suggests a simple XML format to store this kind of information. TapirLink and PyWrapper are planning to use the same format.

First, a single file serves as an index of the existing translations between conceptual schemas:

<verbatim>
<mappingReferencesIndex>
  <forSchema namespace="ns1">
    <ref location="ns1_references.xml"/>
  </forSchema>
  <forSchema namespace="ns2">
    <ref location="ns2_references.xml"/>
  </forSchema>
  ...
</mappingReferencesIndex>
</verbatim>

And then each translation is defined in a separate file:

<verbatim>
<mappingReferences for="ns1">
  <baseConcept id="id1">
    <ref>
      <concept id="id_of_equivalent_concept_1"/>
    </ref>
  </baseConcept>
  <baseConcept id="id2">
    <ref>
      <concept id="id_of_equivalent_concept_2"/>
    </ref>
    <ref>
      <concept id="id_of_equivalent_concept_3"/>
    </ref>
  </baseConcept>
  ...
</mappingReferences>
</verbatim>

Equivalent concepts inside "ref" can belong to different conceptual schemas.

Note that a mapping ns1->ns2 may not be the exact opposite of ns2->ns1.