A Thesaurus Interchange format for migrating to the Semantic Web.
by
Michael Wilson
Table of contents
Description vs Content
Precise language - Restricted Vocabularies
Restricted Vocabularies
Thesauri semantics
Thesauri Standards
Problems with Thesaurus Modelling - BT/NT relations
Problems with Thesaurus Modelling - associative relations
Why move from thesauri to ontologies ?
Approaches to modelling thesauri for the semantic web
Model thesauri links as daml+oil relations
Model thesauri contents as RDF schema relations
Turning a thesaurus into an Ontology
Model thesauri links as RDF schema relations
Limits on RDF Schema representation
Thesaurus relations as RDF schema - Example
Conclusion
References