At 10:15 -0500 3/31/06, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:26 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > >> The work done around SKOS (and specific tasks like expressing WordNet >> in RDF) does suggest RDF/OWL is a particularly good technology choice >> for thesauri. >> >> Cheers, >> Danny. > >Hi Danny, > >Could you either summarize or point to a reference that explains in >what ways this is so? > >--Alan Alan, I haven't yet seen one document that really nails this, but there's a lot of stuff on the SKOS pages at W3C -- one very useful thing to look at is the SKOS Core page [1] which, near the bottom, has the materials from some tutorials at the Dublin Core conference. There's also a getting starting document [2] which doesn't go into the "why" but has a nice intro, easily acessible to the "thesaurus aware" that explains the how and at least mentions some of the benefits (mainly in linking) -JH [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-thesaurus-pubguide/ -- Professor James Hendler Director Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery 301-405-2696 UMIACS, Univ of Maryland 301-314-9734 (Fax) College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler Web Log: http://www.mindswap.org/blog/author/hendler
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