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35284
Title
A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS
Contributors
M van Assem (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
,
V Malaise (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
,
AJ Miles (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
G Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Abstract
Thesauri can be useful resources for indexing and retrieval on the Semantic Web, but often they are not published in RDF/OWL. To convert thesauri to RDF for use in Semantic Web applications and to ensure the quality and utility of the conversion a structured method is required. Moreover, if different thesauri are to be interoperable without complicated mappings, a standard schema for thesauri is required. This paper presents a method for conversion of thesauri to the SKOS RDF/OWL schema, which is a proposal for such a standard under development by W3Cs Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group. We apply the method to three thesauri: IPSV, GTAA and MeSH. With these case studies we evaluate our method and the applicability of SKOS for representing thesauri.
Organisation
CCLRC
,
ESC
Keywords
Physics
,
Materials
,
Chemistry
,
Engineering
,
Natural environment
,
Biology
,
Archaeology
,
RDF
,
Semantic Web
,
Thesauri
,
KOS
,
SKOS
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Language
English (EN)
Type
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Paper In Conference Proceedings
In 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, 11-14 Jun 2006, (2006).
skospapereswc06.pdf
2006
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