A method to convert thesauri to SKOS

Authors:
Mark van Assem;Véronique Malaisé;Alistair Miles;Guus Schreiber
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Business and Information Technology Department, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Venue:
ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Thesauri can be useful resources for indexing and retrieval on the Semantic Web, but often they are not published in RDF/OWL. To convert thesauri to RDF for use in Semantic Web applications and to ensure the quality and utility of the conversion a structured method is required. Moreover, if different thesauri are to be interoperable without complicated mappings, a standard schema for thesauri is required. This paper presents a method for conversion of thesauri to the SKOS RDF/OWL schema, which is a proposal for such a standard under development by W3C's Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group. We apply the method to three thesauri: IPSV, GTAA and MeSH. With these case studies we evaluate our method and the applicability of SKOS for representing thesauri.