ISSUE-217
SKOS Implementation: IUPAC Green Book
- State:
- RAISED
- Product:
- SKOS
- Raised by:
- Sean Bechhofer
- Opened on:
- 2009-05-05
- Description:
Described in: [ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2009May/0005.html ] * Vocabulary title(s): IUPAC Green Book * Name of person and/or organisation responsible for the implementation: Mark Borkum (m.i.borkum@soton.ac.uk), University of Southampton * SKOS constructs used: skos:ConceptScheme skos:Concept skos:inScheme skos:prefLabel * URL(s) for published SKOS data: Not available (yet!) * Can the software read SKOS data: No * Can the software write SKOS data: Yes * Can the software check consistency of SKOS data with respect to the SKOS data model: No. The system maintains a simplified, domain-specific model (books, indexes and terms) and maps instances of the model to SKOS. The goal of the "Green Book" project is to provide a user-friendly version of the IUPAC green book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantities-Units-Symbols-Physical-Chemistry/dp/0854044337/). We decided to use SKOS as the serialisation format because of the 'instant interoperability'. The software was developed using Ruby on Rails. The system is represented as a 'top-level' ConceptScheme (containing all concepts). Each edition of a book is represented as a distinct ConceptScheme. We are currently working on a number of extensions to the system which make use of additional SKOS constructs: 1) Use skos:broader and skos:narrower to indicate the context within which a term was used (for example, "atomic mass" is narrower than "mass") 2) Use data-mining of the original text to associate each term with a skos:definition 3) Add support for internationalisation using skos:altLabel Regards, Mark -- Mark Borkum School of Chemistry, University of Southampton m.i.borkum@soton.ac.uk
- Related emails:
- ISSUE-217: SKOS Implementation: IUPAC Green Book (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2009-05-05)
Related notes:
2009-05-05: TYPE: Vocabulary