Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2006)

by Mark van Assem, Veronique Malaise, Alistair Miles, Guus Schreiber

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.

A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS was presented at this event.

Keywords: Ontology Engineering

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2006/paper/vanassem-malais
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