Model thesauri links as daml+oil relations

Hall (2001) has proposed modelling thesauri with the thesauri relations represented as DAML+Oil relations - allowing the expression of constraints.

Hall (2001) has presented an alternative schema for ISO compliant monolingual thesauri in DAML with additional link types for acronyms. The core structure of this proposal is that:

 

<daml:Class rdf:ID="Term">

<daml:Class rdf:ID="CALL-Term">

 <daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="descriptorFor">

<daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="preferredTermFor">

<daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="entryTermFor">

<daml:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="name">

<daml:TransitiveProperty rdf:ID="BT">

<daml:inverseOf rdf:resource="#NT" />

<daml:TransitiveProperty rdf:ID="RT">

<daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="USE">

<daml:inverseOf rdf:resource="#UF" />

<daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="AF"> (acronym inverse for ACK)

<daml:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="ACK">

 

It is questionable whether RT should be transitive relation (school-building-church)

The proposal is limited to monolingual thesauri.