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Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 1999)

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In this paper we present a new approach for building RDF schemas by integrating existing ontologies and structured vocabularies (thesauri). We will present a simple mechanism based on the specification of inclusion relationships between thesaurus terms and ontology concepts and show how these relationships can be exploited to create application-specific RDF schemas incorporating the structural views of ontologies and deep classification schemes provided by thesauri.

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  1. Cedric CNAM, 292 Rue St. Martin, 75141, Paris Cedex 03, France

    Bernd Amann

  2. NRIA Rocquencourt, 78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Irini Fundulaki

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Amann, B., Fundulaki, I. (1999). Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas. In: Abiteboul, S., Vercoustre, AM. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48155-9_16

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