- From: Ron Davies <ron@rondavies.be>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:09:06 +0100
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org,Thomas Baker <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>
- Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Received on Monday, 28 February 2005 07:33:45 UTC
At 14:16 25/02/2005, Thomas Baker wrote: >Hmm, it feels to me that the notion of converting between XML >and RDF automatically opens a can of worms. For starters, >what is an "XML version of a thesaurus"? Such a document >could presumably take on any number of forms since the document >models expressible in XML are theoretically quite diverse. Even assuming that a conversion could be done automatically, there is also the question of what information might be lost in doing so. The model underlying SKOS, for instance, does not include all of the information in the BS 8743 model, which might make it unsuitable for certain kinds of uses. Ron Ron Davies Information and documentation systems consultant Av. Baden-Powell 1 Bte 2, 1200 Brussels, Belgium Email: ron(a)rondavies.be Tel: +32 (0)2 770 33 51 GSM: +32 (0)484 502 393
Received on Monday, 28 February 2005 07:33:45 UTC