%0 Journal Article %1 assem2006cts %A van Assem, Mark %A Malaisé, Véronique %A Miles, Alistair %A Schreiber, Guus %D 2006 %J The Semantic Web: Research and Applications %K SKOS thesaurus %P 95--109 %R 10.1007/11762256\_10 %T A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11762256\_10 %X 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.

@article{assem2006cts, 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.}, added-at = {2008-05-14T11:06:13.000+0200}, author = {van Assem, Mark and Malais\'{e}, V\'{e}ronique and Miles, Alistair and Schreiber, Guus}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26eb91f70a2d8219b7016a7cc942c9400/brightbyte}, citeulike-article-id = {1373104}, doi = {10.1007/11762256\_10}, interhash = {ce44953b51e17605040d608a353ac84d}, intrahash = {6eb91f70a2d8219b7016a7cc942c9400}, journal = {The Semantic Web: Research and Applications}, keywords = {SKOS thesaurus}, pages = {95--109}, priority = {3}, timestamp = {2009-01-23T09:58:50.000+0100}, title = {A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11762256\_10}, year = 2006 }