AW: [ANN] Standard Thesaurus Economics in RDFa/SKOS (tech preview)

Ben,

please understand that I can't tell anything about this officially. But it wouldn't make sense to publish a dataset without giving people the admission to work with it. I hope I can tell more in some weeks.

Cheers, Joachim

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Benjamin O'Steen [mailto:bosteen@gmail.com] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009 13:03
> An: Neubert Joachim
> Cc: Linked Data community
> Betreff: Re: [ANN] Standard Thesaurus Economics in RDFa/SKOS 
> (tech preview)
> 
> 
> I have a non-technical question, but an important one for me 
> - if you can, can you say which in direction the licencing is 
> headed? Open Data?
> Creative Commons? or something restrictive?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben O'Steen
> 
> > Neubert Joachim wrote:
> > > Dear LODers,
> > >  
> > > I'd like to announce here a tech preview of the "Standard 
> Thesaurus 
> > > Economics" as a RDFa/SKOS application.
> > >  
> > > The german/english thesaurus
> > > (http://www.zbw.eu/e_databases/e_econis/e_standard_thesaurus.htm)
> > > contains 6,500 richly interlinked concepts. At the German 
> National 
> > > Library of Economics (ZBW) and other institutions it is used for 
> > > more than ten years to index literature from economics 
> and business practice.
> > >  
> > > As a preview, http://www.zbw.eu/beta/stw contains only a 
> hand full 
> > > of concepts (indeed the test set used in the development of the 
> > > conversion scripts). Some things have still to be fixed - most 
> > > notably, the licensing policy, but also the "user 
> experience" of the 
> > > web site ;)
> > >  
> > > Nevertheless I would be very happy to get some feedback, 
> especially 
> > > about
> > >  
> > > 1) the URI design (which can't be changed easily after 
> the whole set 
> > > is
> > > published)
> > > 2) the approach to versioning (preserving the concept's 
> identity but 
> > > providing "historical data" for human lookup)
> > > 3) the links into the library catalog (which, for the lack of a 
> > > standard attribute, are implemented by a custom stw:indexes 
> > > subproperty of
> > > rdfs:seeAlso)
> > > 4) the usefulness as a possible interlinking hub in the LOD cloud
> > >  
> > > Comments are highly welcome (on other topics as well, of cause).
> > >  
> > > Cheers, Joachim
> > >  
> > 
> 
>

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