It is helpful to be able to relate terms to terms (having IRIs) in other ontologies. skos provides the properties:
skos:match
skos:exactMatch
skos:broadMatch
- ect.
Sometimes it helpful to relate a term to words/expressions the have similar meanings. The oboInOwl (http://www.geneontology.org/formats/oboInOwl#) namespace provides the following annotations:
oboInOwl:hasSynonym
oboInOwl:has_broad_synonym
oboInOwl:has_narrow_synonym
- etc.