Vocabularies. Thesaurus.
Semantics.
TopicMaps
http://www.ontopia.net/
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/index.html
Topic maps provide a simple, yet powerful model for bridging the gap
between information and knowledge. Already accepted as a standard by the
International Standards Organization (ISO) and now adapted for use on the
web by TopicMaps.Org, topic maps make knowledge interchange and federation
a reality and contribute significantly to the realization of the Semantic
Web.
A set of one or more
interrelated documents that employs the notation defined by this
International Standard is called a 'topic map'. In general, the structural
information conveyed by topic maps includes: (1) groupings of addressable
information objects around topics (occurrences), and (2) relationships
between topics (associations). A topic map defines a multidimensional
topic space -- a space in which the locations are topics, and in which the
distances between topics are measurable in terms of the number of
intervening topics which must be visited in order to get from one topic to
another, and the kinds of relationships that define the path from one
topic to another, if any, through the intervening topics, if any.
OIL Ontology Inference Layer
The Ontology Inference Layer
OIL is a proposal for a web-based representation and inference layer for
ontologies, which combines the widely used modelling primitives from
frame-based languages with the formal semantics and reasoning services
provided by description logics. It is compatible with RDF
Schema (RDFS), and includes a precise semantics
for describing term meanings (and thus also for describing implied
information).
http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/
Journal of Digital information,
volume 1 issue 8
Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping
Martin Doerr
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Doerr/
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VOCABULARY AS A CENTRAL CONCEPT
IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Michael Buckland,
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/colisvoc.htm
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Journal of Digital information, volume 1 issue 8
Augmenting Thesaurus Relationships: Possibilities for Retrieval
Douglas Tudhope, Harith Alani and Christopher Jones
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Tudhope/
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Chen, Hsinchun, J. Martinez, T. D. Ng, and B. R. Schatz (1996) "A
Concept
Space Approach to Addressing the Vocabulary Problem in Scientific
Information Retrieval: An Experiment on the Worm Community System".
Journal
of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 47, No. 8, August
http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/papers/wcs96/wcs96.html
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NKOS, Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nkos
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Cross, P., Brickley, D. and Koch, T. (2000) Conceptual relationships for
encoding thesauri, classification systems and organised metadata
collections
and a proposal for encoding a core set of thesaurus relationships using an
RDF Schema. http://www.desire.org/results/discovery/rdfthesschema.html
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ISO 2788-1986 (1986) Documentation - Guidelines for the establishment and
development of monolingual thesauri, International Organization for
Standardization, Ref. No ISO 2788-1986
EBTI: (European Binding Tariff Information)
http://www.bjl.be/2_3_1.htm
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OASIS, Otlet's Adaptive Search Information Service, honors Paul Otlet, a
pioneer of Information Management. A program of exploration of information
selection: searching, filtering, retrieval, and especially adaptive
searching using multiple computers and multiple sources in a networked
environment.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/oasis/.
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The Getty Art History Information Program (AIHP) is an operating program
of
the J. Paul Getty Trust (http://www.ahip.getty.edu/).
The AIHP has
undertaken two long-standing efforts related to digital libraries;
development of thesaurus and standardized vocabulary, and database
projects,
executed jointly with other organizations and institutions in the US and
Europe, and recently expanded to include potential Internet access
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Mapping Entry Vocabulary to Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabulary
D-Lib Magazine, Jan 1999
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/buckland/01buckland.html
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ERCIM News No.41, April 2000
Multilingual Metadata to access Social Science Databy Brian Matthews and
Michael Wilson
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw41/matthews1.html
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ERCIM News No.35 - October 1998
Metadata: An Overview and some Issues by Keith G Jeffery
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw35/intro.html
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ERCIM News No.27 - October 1996
Tools and Techniques for Digital Libraries by Jacques Ducloy
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw27/en27contents.html