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