- From: Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:03:35 -0000
- To: "Ron Davies" <ron@rondavies.be>, <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <F5839D944C66C049BDB45F4C1E3DF89D18DBC4@exchange31.fed.cclrc.ac.uk>
Ron, Would you mind writing up in short exactly which parts of the BS8723 model are not covered by the SKOS Core model? Thanks, Al. --- Alistair Miles Research Associate 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 Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440 -----Original Message----- From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org [mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Ron Davies Sent: 27 February 2005 09:09 To: public-esw-thes@w3.org; Thomas Baker Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org Subject: Re: Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web At 14:16 25/02/2005, Thomas Baker wrote: Hmm, it feels to me that the notion of converting between XML and RDF automatically opens a can of worms. For starters, what is an "XML version of a thesaurus"? Such a document could presumably take on any number of forms since the document models expressible in XML are theoretically quite diverse. Even assuming that a conversion could be done automatically, there is also the question of what information might be lost in doing so. The model underlying SKOS, for instance, does not include all of the information in the BS 8743 model, which might make it unsuitable for certain kinds of uses. Ron Ron Davies Information and documentation systems consultant Av. Baden-Powell 1 Bte 2, 1200 Brussels, Belgium Email: ron(a)rondavies.be Tel: +32 (0)2 770 33 51 GSM: +32 (0)484 502 393
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