Difference between revisions of "Thesaurus"

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A thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.

In Information Science, Library Science, and Information Technology, specialized thesauri are designed for information retrieval. They are a type of controlled vocabulary, for indexing or tagging purposes. If you want more information about term you can take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus

OpenKM can working with thesaurus defined in .owl and .rdfs formats.

There's a great utility http://protege.stanford.edu/ to create and maintaining your own thesaurus. In Internet can be found specific thesaurus, for example Agrovoc[1] ( FAO ), NASA Thesuarus[2], UNESCO Thesaurus[3], Public administration Thesaurus[4] among others. Someones are free and others have some usage restrictions.

In order to correctly configure OpenKM thesaurus you must set this OpenKM.cfg entries: kea.thesaurus.skos.file kea.thesaurus.owl.file kea.thesaurus.base.url

1. kea.thesaurus.vocabulary.serql=SELECT X,UID FROM {X} skos:prefLabel {UID} WHERE lang(UID) ="en" USING NAMESPACE rdf=<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>, skos=<http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>,rdfs=<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>,dc=<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>, dcterms=<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>, foaf=<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>

kea.thesaurus.tree.root kea.thesaurus.tree.childs

You could be interested in:

• A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL[5]
• SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System[6]