RE : Practical applications of networking standards for KOS - STITCH project

Dear Ron,

In the STITCH project we made a case study where two collections were aligned together so as to enable an integrated access to them. We used SKOS to represent the vocabularies of these two collections. You can find more details on our site, where you can find a small demo: http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/demo

Of course we welcome all kinds of comments and questions!

Cheers,

Antoine

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Antoine Isaac

STITCH Project - http://www.cs.vu.nl/STITCH/
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 
E-mail: Antoine Isaac AT kb nl


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De: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org de la part de Ron Davies
Date: sam. 04/02/2006 20:48
À: NKOS@dli2.nsf.gov; sigcr-l@asis.org; public-esw-thes@w3.org
Objet : Practical applications of networking standards for KOS
 
My apologies in advance for cross-posting.

For a presentation this spring, I am trying to collect information on practical, real world uses of standards for sharing and making use of networked knowledge organisation systems. Knowledge organisation systems (KOS) of course include classification schemes, subject heading lists, thesauri, ontologies and other controlled vocabularies. Uses might include migrating schemes from a management system to a retrieval application or another management application, translation of a thesaurus from one natural language to another,  translating searches from one indexing language to another (or from one natural language to another), and expanding or enriching queries. 

If you are using a standard for presenting the content of classification schemes, thesauri or ontologies in a networked environment or a standard protocol for accessing that information, please send me some brief information or references to your application, and (ideally) a URL where this information will be available. If you are not using a standard, but are still doing any of the above, I would also be interested in hearing about your application. I will, of course, summarise responses for the list. 

Thanks in advance.

Ron 


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