RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup of Thesaurus [maybe off-topic]

["Rowland, Cindy" <crowland@hbsp.harvard.edu>]

Here are a some examples of online thesauri/vocabulary control systems:

http://www.ericfacility.net/extra/pub/thessearch.cfm

http://www.asis.org/Publications/Thesaurus/isframe.htm

http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/Aodthome.htm

I'd recommend that Mr. Jenkins look at some of activity in the RDF community
which can be found off of the W3C.org web site. There are also some
interesting things happening regarding ontologies with DAML and OIL. These
are geared towards electronic content. But there might be something there.

Regards, 
Cindy Rowland


-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:31 AM
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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup of Thesaurus [maybe off-topic]


/ Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com> was heard to say:
| This posting maybe off topic for this list, if so forgive me and try to
| point me to the right place. But after looking through DB:TDG I can't find
| anything in DocBook that I can use to markup thesaurus files. That is
| thesaurus lists as used by information scientists (as per BS 5723:1987 aka
| ANSI/NIST Z39.19-1993 aka ISO 2788-1986) rather than simple synonym lists
| like Roget's Thesaurus.

None of those standards rings a bell. Can you point us to some
examples of this sort of thesaurus?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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