- From: Thomas Bandholtz <thomas@sema.de>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:10:28 +0100
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, "Sergey Melnik" <melnik@DB.Stanford.EDU>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <wordnet@princeton.edu>
Sounds very interesting. We use RDF with environmental terminology in www.gein.de in Germany. Last week we had a workshop, starting the development of an "Environmental Markup Language" which will be RDF + eml-namespace + vocabulary. There is a 12-lingual environmental thesaurus named GEMET, maintained by the European Environmental Agency. We want to convert this thesaurus into the form of a topic map (see http://www.topic-maps.com/lit/iso13250/iso13250-1999-fcd.htm or www.topic-maps.de). I think topic maps are a good structure for vocabularies in the semantic web. Thomas Bandholtz - Sema Group GmbH - Project Manager Environmental Information Systems Kaltenbornweg 3 D50679 Cologne GERMANY xx49 221 8299 264 thomas@sema.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> An: Sergey Melnik <melnik@DB.Stanford.EDU> Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>; <wordnet@princeton.edu> Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Dezember 1999 05:22 Betreff: Re: WordNet in RDF/XML: 50,000+ RDF class vocabulary... > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Sergey Melnik wrote: > > Nice demo. Given the wealth of possible application scenarious, it'd be > > great to have an RDF dump of WordNet (a la Open Directory) that uses > > some "standard" RDF interpretation in a fixed namespace. Then people can > > start talking about the same "concepts". > > I agree. As soon as we can give a Web identifier to the WordNet vocabulary > (or, specifically, the v1.6 version?) people can rush off and start using > it for Web annotations, content classification/categorisation, > accessibility tools etc. While any arbitrary URI would in principle allow > for this as long as folks agree, practicality and politeness both suggest > that the web identifier for WordNet is something that the Princeton > WordNet team should probably specify or bless. > > So, that's one reason I copied wordnet@princeton.edu in on my msg. My > belief is that we know enough now to suggest how to deploy a > WordNet-in-RDF namespace, and that we could have a WordNet RDF vocabulary > (for nouns at least) up and running for semantic web applications fairly > quickly. > > I'm particularly interested to hear from anyone with contradictory views, > or with more experience of the WordNet vocabulary. WordNet proved easy to > mine for a set of RDF classes; I'm wondering whether there is a > mechanisable mapping from other parts of the WordNet to RDF > properties/relations too... > > So - if anyone from wordnet@princeton is listening, you've been copied in > to a thread on the W3C RDF Interest Group [1]. The suggestion is that an > officially blessed WordNet 'namespace' URI (ie. a Web identifier such as a > URL or URN) would allow us to use WordNet concepts with the RDF [2] > information model for Web content classification and categorisation. > > The URI could be something like http://cogsci.princeton.edu/rdf/wn/ or > http://rdf.cogsci.princeton.edu/wn16/. Ideally those identifiers would > allow applications to connect to datadumps of WordNet using XML/RDF, but > the important thing for the use of WordNet with XML/RDF is that we agree > on a common identifier for the WordNet vocabulary. > > Dan > > ps. I don't believe a separate RDF dump of wordnet is needed. Instead we > could use just a few line perl script to autoconvert the Prolog dumps of > WordNet that are already available. Similarly for an interactive version, > a short Perl script can wrap the commandline query interface. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/RDF/ >
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