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A method to convert thesauri to SKOS

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Mark van Assem,

Véronique Malaisé,

Alistair Miles, and

Guus SchreiberAuthors Info & Claims

ESWC'06: Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications

June 2006

Pages 95 - 109

https://doi.org/10.1007/11762256_10

Published: 11 June 2006 Publication History

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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 W3C's 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.

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