Re: [egov] Representing polyhierarchical taxonomies in XML

["Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>]

Paul:

I believe you have the choice of OWL or Topic maps. Either way you are
going to have decide how best to register the taxonomic relationships.

I attach a paper that  describes the OWL approach used by Prof Asuman
Dogac's team on the Satine project.

finest regards

carl

<quote who="Farrukh Najmi">
> Paul Spencer wrote:
>
>>The UK e-GMS metadata standard is a polyhierarchical taxonomy* in which
>> an
>>item in the hierarchy can have more than one parent.
>>
> In ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management work we are likely to
> support OWL for this purpose.
> In current ebXML Registry a ClassificationScheme may have a
> ClassificationNode that can typically have only one parent.
> However, by using EquiovalentTo Associations you can have the same
> logical node as multiple equivalent physical nodes under different
> parents this achieving some modicum of a polyhierarchical taxonomy.
>


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_DAPD_PaperMain.pdf