- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:02:05 -0000
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi everyone, I've had a go at writing up 'the biggie' - inter-thesaurus mapping. It's Issue 9 on the RDFThesaurus wiki <http://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfThesaurus>. I found that it's a problem that seems very simple on the surface, then explodes a bit when you get into it. So anyway, I've done my best to be as clear as possible about it, I look forward to your comments and ideas. Al. Issue 9 - Inter-thesaurus mapping For an introduction to the problem space, a good reference is Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping <http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Doerr/>. The problem: How to express a mapping from concepts in one thesaurus to concepts in another? The current (non-semweb) solution: A mapping relationship between concepts from different thesauri is usually called an "equivalence relationship". The following equivalence relationships are used: ... Alistair Miles 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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