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Is Irish an official language in Britain? – Five arguments in favour of thesauri
The article ‘Five arguments in favour of thesauri & controlled vocabularies‘ shall not only clarify if Irish is an official language in Britain but also how thesauri and linked data
Automatic text analytics using DBpedia and PoolParty – A Live Demo
Let me show you which steps have to be taken to generate a high-quality text mining application, ready to be used to annotate and to categorize any kind of text
The ESA vocabulary site – Making Publishing and Reusing Vocabularies Easier
Reviewing the interview we made with Les Kneebone (project manager of the vocabulary projects at Education Services Australia) in November 2010 we can see that ESA has been one of
Introducing SKOSsy – generate thesauri on the fly!
Imagine you could generate any thesaurus you would like for nearly any knowledge domain you can think of with quite a good quality! Sounds impossible? Reminds you of all the
Which kind of controlled vocabularies matter?
Looking at intermediate results of the Controlled Vocabularies Survey an interesting finding concerns the question which types of knowledge models are currently best fit for actual use in applications. So
Linked data based thesaurus management in collaborative settings
The creation and management of controlled vocabularies in companies often takes place in a distributed manner. Different departments in different branch offices often rather create their own vocabularies, than have
Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine
Looking for high quality enterprise vocabularies we recently turned our attention to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which is an industry taxonomy designed to categorize any private company. It
Les Kneebone: “Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia”
Les Kneebone is Project Manager at Education Services Australia Ltd. Among other projects he is responsible for Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). PoolParty Team asked Les a couple of questions about
KiWi Annual Meeting
Last week the partners of the KiWi (Knowledge In a Wiki) project met in Salzburg for the 2009 Annual Meeting. Sebastian Schaffert and his team demonstrated the latest version of
Combining Closed and Open Data Classification Mechanisms in an Extended Thesaurus
In the next session, Rolf Sint gave us insights into his approach to the combination of closed and open data classification mechanisms, which is informed by his findings in his