RE: FAQ: suggestions

Hi Sue Ellen

 

If you have not already seen, section 6.3 (written by Traugott Koch) of
the 2006 JISC Review on Terminology Services and Technology reviews work
on URIs relevant to KOS at that time. 

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/capital/terminology_ser
vices_and_technology_review_sep_06.pdf 

 

(The review also gives more background on KOS generally)

 

Be very interested in results of your study

 

Doug

 

PS JISC used term 'terminology' to cover KOS systems broadly

 

 

 

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From: public-esw-thes-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sue Ellen Wright
Sent: 04 February 2008 20:45
To: Jodi Schneider
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Subject: Re: FAQ: suggestions

 

Dear colleagues,

I found Jodi's items really interesting. I usually don't have time to
read everything that goes by, so I've probably missed some discussion of
the FAQ you reference. Your discussion of URIs impinges on a serious
discussion that's going on tangential to this discussion with respect to
persistent identifiers (PIDs). I have been tasked with the problem of
identifying different standards in the various communities of practice
could come to require or at least be enhanced by the use of PIDs. So far
I'm looking at TC 37 and TC 46 standards in ISO, JTC 1/SC 32 standards
for metadata registries, the variety of KOS & OWL standards, etc. Any
suggestions that anyone has on the matter would be really interesting to
take into consideration. The immediate goal of the working group is to
determine how we are going to use PIDs in linguistic resources in such a
way that they can be made accessible for use in providing semantic
content that can be leveraged by other knowledge resources in
interactive web environments.

Best regards

Sue Ellen

On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider@amherst.edu>
wrote:

Here are some suggestions for your FAQ, based on questions I'd like
better answers to. I've included sample answers, for a few of these, but
you can probably come up with improved ones!

 

You might also think about particular audiences--e.g. librarians,
programmers, ontologists/data modelers--and determine the most basic
questions from those perspectives

 

-Jodi

 

What is a knowledge organisation system?

 

"The term knowledge organization systems is intended to encompass all
types of schemes for organizing information and promoting knowledge
management. Knowledge organization systems include classification and
categorization schemes that organize materials at a general level,
subject headings that provide more detailed access, and authority files
that control variant versions of key information such as geographic
names and personal names. Knowledge organization systems also include
highly structured vocabularies, such as thesauri, and less traditional
schemes, such as semantic networks and ontologies"

 

from 

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/executive.html

which is part of 

Hodge,G. (2000). Systems of Knowledge Organization: Beyond traditional
authority files. Council on Library and Information Resources.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html 

 

What is RDF?

 

"RDF provides a general, flexible method to decompose any knowledge into
small pieces, called triples, with some rules about the semantics
(meaning) of those pieces." 

 

RDF stands for Resource Description Framework

 

"The six documents composing the RDF specification tell us two things.
First, it outlines the abstract model, i.e., how to use triples to
represent knowledge about the world. Second, it describes how to encode
those triples in XML.

 

Most of the abstract model of RDF comes down to four simple rules:

 

   1. A fact is expressed as a Subject-Predicate-Object triple, also
known as a statement. It's like a little English sentence.

   2. Subjects, predicates, and objects are given as names for entities,
also called resources (dating back to RDF's application to metadata for
web resources) or nodes (from graph terminology). Entities represent
something, a person, website, or something more abstract like states and
relations.

   3. Names are URIs, which are global in scope, always referring to the
same entity in any RDF document in which they appear.

   4. Objects can also be given as text values, called literal values,
which may or may not be typed using XML Schema datatypes."

 

from 

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html?page=2

which is part of 

Joshua Tauberer (2006 July 26) What Is RDF
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/24/rdf.html

 

 

Example of RDF & where used

 

Example of SKOS & where used

maybe pull out relevant examples from tutorials on
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/references , e.g LCSH (interesting to
librarians), Catch project, interesting to cultural heritage community

 




-- 
Sue Ellen Wright
Institute for Applied Linguistics
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242 USA
sellenwright@gmail.com

Terminology management: There is unfortunately no cure for terminology;
you can only hope to manage it. (Kelly Washbourne)