- From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:17:47 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jean-Marc Vanel <jmvanel@free.fr>
- cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Vanel wrote: > Hello > > I tried to find in the Web the Dewey Decimal Code for library science . > This is just one possible categorization scheme for Dublin Core Subject > property. What about other Web-accessible categorization schemes? Last month we had some discussion around the use of the WordNet lexical database. WordNet is easier to get hold of than Dewey, but isn't really a classification scheme. It is more like a model of how natural language words and phrases relate to one another, including but not limited to hierarchical structures (eg: ...is a kind of... relations). I started an experimental attempt at reflecting some parts of WordNet into the Web as RDF classes and DC subject classification. The work is incomplete in that my scripts currently conflate and confuse wordnet's notion of a term with the synonym-set of terms it is grouped with. I hope to fix this some weekend soon, so that the vocabulary becomes deployable. So... wordnet might be of interest. But there's plenty of other schemes although most don't assign Web identifiers (URIs) to their contents yet. For the WordNet discussion see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/0002.html for initial announcement and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/ for other posts with 'WordNet' in the title. Dan
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