NEW Issue 9 - Concept Mapping

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

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