- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:53:32 -0000
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfThesaurus The Problem: A user wants to create a hybrid thesaurus by plugging bits of existing thesauri together. By what mechanism should they do this? Solution 1: To express thesaurus linke by using the normal semantic relations of a thesaurus, 'broader/narrower' and 'related'. So if a user wants to prune a branch from a thesaurus, they remove the 'broader/narrower' statements. If they want to add a branch, they add 'broader/narrower' statements. This solution treats thesaurus linking as a special case of altering the organisational structure of a set of thesaurus concepts. Solution 2: Create custom linking properties that are not 'semantic relations'. In this way the integrity and internal structure of each thesaurus is maintained. ... CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1235 445440
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