Re: Terminology Service Project

Thanks Antoine

If anyone is interested in finding out more about the vocabulary services
for the ASPECT project, there is a free event on 26th November in London.
[1]

Attendance and lunch is free but places are limited.

If you want to find out more about how these services can be used or have an
interest in editing and managing vocabularies, including SKOS issues, why
not come along.

Also, if anyone in going to Online Educa [2], 1st and 2nd December in
Berlin, I am briefly presenting the VBE there on the Friday afternoon. If
you are there I would be delighted to meet with anyone who wants to chat
about our approach.

Cheers
Mike 7:-D

[1] http://www.vocman.com/news/vbe-event
[2] http://www.online-educa.com




> From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:33:07 +0200
> To: Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mike Collett <mike@vocman.com>, Peter Yim <peter.yim@cim3.com>,
> <public-esw-thes@w3.org>, "M.Roszkowski" <rosz_mar@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Terminology Service Project
> 
> Dear Marcyn, all,
> 
> Marcyn, your question is very difficult to answer: "your experiences" can be
> many things :-)
> 
> There are quite many tools already listed in the SKOS wiki-related pages,
> which are a bit scattered now, between:
> - a legacy tool page, gathering stuff from before the Recommendation status
> [1]
> - the SKOS implementation report, at the time SKOS went into Rec status [2]
> - the main page of the SKOS wiki [3], which has tools and points to the now
> recommended way to register tools.
> 
> For terminology services the following ones from the SKOS implementation
> report may be very relevant:
> - NSDL metadata registry  [4]
> - STAR service [5]
> - MMI service [6]
> - CATCH service [7]
> 
> There is also the FinnONTO project [8] that is explicitly labelled as SKOS
> service-oriented.  And of course the FAO Agrovoc service  [9].
> 
> Finally, for anyone who is tempted to answer Marcyn, please use the process
> referred from [3] so as to get a permanent / more visible pointer to your
> stuff! I had never heard of the ASPECT results before, and they seem really
> interesting...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Antoine
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS/LegacyTools
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/reference/20090315/implementation.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/210
> [5]http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/212
> [6]  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/220
> [7] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/223
> [8] http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto/
> [9] http://aims.fao.org/website/The-Concept-Server-WorkBench
> 
> 
>> You should check the OOR initiative. The Open Ontology Repository
>> initiative has software that you can use. Contact Peter Yim, he is
>> leading the effort -Peter is being cced here.
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Mike Collett <mike@vocman.com
>> <mailto:mike@vocman.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Hi Marcin
>> 
>>     We are involved in a European project called ASPECT. This includes
>>     provision of a Vocabulary Bank for Education that contains a range
>>     of controlled vocabularies for use across various systems in the
>>     project, including metadata validation services.
>> 
>>     Many of the vocabularies are multilingual, others are being
>>     translated. Polish is one of the languages. The system allows
>>     browsing according to your browser language preference as long as
>>     there is a translation in that language.
>> 
>>     At this stage the interface has not been translated, though it has
>>     been translated into Dutch for the EduStandaard service.
>> 
>>     The project uses our Lexaurus Editor and Bank software. The
>>     architecture and model is not based on a particular exchange format
>>     but support is provide to import and export SKOS, Zthes (various
>>     profiles), Vdex and others, plus there are some xslts available for
>>     converting other formats. Though it needs be be recognised that
>>     somel formats may not carry the same information.
>> 
>>     The schema is very easily customisable and can be adapted to user
>>     requirements, including providing alternative concept (or term)
>>     property names.
>> 
>>     The Bank provides standards-based machine to machine interfaces and
>>     is accessible via a REST API that allows the format to be specified
>>     in a call to return "zthes", "zthes_1_1", "zthes_1_2", "vdex",
>>     "skos", "nested", "json" or (for non-vocab calls) "xthes".
>> 
>>     If you have any queries please contact me directly.
>> 
>>     VBE: http://aspect.vocman.com/vbe/
>>     ASPECT project: http://aspect.eun.org/
>>     EduStandaard: http://kennisnet.lexaurus.net/
>> 
>>     Cheers
>>     Mike 7:-D
>>     -----------
>>     Mike Collett
>>     Vocabulary Management Group
>>     +44 7798 728 747
>>     ------------
>>     www.vocman.com <http://www.vocman.com/>
>>     mike@vocman.com <http://mike@vocman.com/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     *From: *"M.Roszkowski" <rosz_mar@yahoo.com <http://rosz_mar@yahoo.com/>>
>>     *Date: *Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:59:53 -0700 (PDT)
>>     *To: *<public-esw-thes@w3.org <http://public-esw-thes@w3.org/>>
>>     *Subject: *Terminology Service Project
>>     *Resent-From: *<public-esw-thes@w3.org <http://public-esw-thes@w3.org/>>
>>     *Resent-Date: *Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:57:18 +0000
>> 
>> 
>>     Hello
>> 
>>     My organization has plans for setting up a polish terminology
>>     service on library metadata and cataloging formats and standards
>>     (term + definition + source of definition + context + additional
>>     information). The project is on initial stage. We are considering
>>     the choice of appriopiate format. We are aware of existing
>>     glossaries in SKOS, but we have not used any tools, software which
>>     could help us.
>>     Please feel free and share your experiences.
>>     This should be quite simple and easy to manage.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     Best wishes
>>     Marcin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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