Doubts about domains and microthesauri in Thesaurus to SKOS conversion

Hi everybody, I'm studying the best way (or the most beautiful and
meaningful form) to represent a thesaurus with domains and
microthesauri, in my case Eurovoc and few ones, in "SKOS 2009" format.
My doubt is how to deal with domains and microthesauri, I found many
examples (UKAT's, IVOA vocabularies and STW's) but it seems to lack a
shared method to do it.
In UKAT thesaurus both the thesaurus and the microthesauri are
skos:ConceptScheme and the concepts have the property skos:inScheme
pointing to the main scheme and to the related microthesaurus.
According to IVOA all the domains and the microthesauri are
skos:Concept but I think that in this way I loose the base thesaurus
Descriptor goal and I put all domains, microthesauri and descriptors
on the same level.
In the STW's thesaurus, there is only one skos:ConceptScheme, the
thesaurus itself, and the domains, the microthesauri and the
descriptors are mapped into skos:Concept but this class is extended
into stw:Descriptor and ztw:Thsys.

Which is the best thesaurus representation?

Thanks a lot

Giacomo Bartoloni

Received on Friday, 19 February 2010 11:36:04 UTC