SKOS Implementation: STW Thesaurus for Economics

Title: 
    STW Thesaurus for Economics
 
Organisation: 
    German National Library of Economics (ZBW) / Leibniz Information
Center for Economics
 
SKOS constructs used:
    ConceptScheme
    Concept
    prefLabel
    altLabel
    notation
    scopeNote
    editorialNote
    broader
    narrower
    related
    inScheme
    hasTopConcept
    exactMatch
    closeMatch
    some additional from RDFS/OWL/DCTERMS/CC
    custom extensions (see http://zbw.eu/namespaces/skos-extensions)
 
Website: 
    http://zbw.eu/stw 
    XHTML+RDFa web pages
    SKOS data and mappings to dbpedia for download in RDF/XML
 
Experimental web service:
    http://zbw.eu/beta/stw-ws

License: 
    CC by-nc-sa
 
Languages: 
    english, german
 
Scope (subthesauri):
    V Economics
    B Business economics
    W Economic sectors 
    P Commodities
    G Geographic names
    N Related subject areas
    A General descriptors
 
Statistics for STW v8.04:
    5773 descriptors
    535 thsys (subject categories)
    15498 skos:broader/skos:narrower relations
    10135 skos:related relations
    1272 skos:scopeNotes
    60 skos:editorialNotes

Implementation details: 
    http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2009/papers/ldow2009_paper7.pdf


Cheers, Joachim
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Joachim Neubert
IT Development
German National Library of Economics (ZBW)