On the evaluation of thesaurus tools compatible with the Semantic Web

Thesauri are valuable knowledge organization systems (KOSs) that support advanced information retrieval. The Semantic Web has brought a renewed interest in thesauri as a support for semantic searches and other added-value services. Tools that manage thesauri permit them to be created, edited and queried. The integrity restrictions on thesauri should also be controlled by these tools. However, there is also the possibility of thesaurus exchange, which becomes relevant in the Semantic Web context, where information exchange is a crucial facility. In fact, interoperability at the information level has received an important boost with the stabilization of the SKOS standard as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation. Furthermore, the feasibility of integrating software is a valuable feature for software developers. An evaluation framework for thesaurus tools is proposed, which includes the issues of functionalities, construct support, integrity, information interoperability and feasibility of integrating software. It is original in focusing on Semantic Web conformity and interoperability.

[1]  Stefan Decker,et al.  Creating Semantic Web Contents with Protégé-2000 , 2001, IEEE Intell. Syst..

[2]  Organización Internacional de Normalización.  ISO 25964-1 : Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -- Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval , 2011 .

[3]  Isidoro Gil Leiva,et al.  Evaluación de softwares de gestión de tesauros , 2001 .

[4]  Emilio Rubiera Azcona,et al.  Promoting Government Controlled Vocabularies for the Semantic Web : the EUROVOC Thesaurus and the CPV Product Classification System , 2008 .

[5]  Juan Antonio,et al.  ISO-THES: ampliando Skos a partir de la norma de tesauros ISO 25964 , 2013 .

[6]  Organización Internacional de Normalización.  ISO 25964-2 : Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -- Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies , 2013 .

[7]  Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez.  ISO-THES: Ampliando Skos a partir de la norma de tesauros ISO 25964 , 2013 .

[8]  Shari Lawrence Pfleeger,et al.  Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation , 1995, IEEE Trans. Software Eng..

[9]  Marietjie Schutte.  Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society , 2009 .

[10]  Javier Nogueras-Iso,et al.  ThManager: An Open Source Tool for Creating and Visualizing SKOS , 2007 .

[11]  Antoine Isaac,et al.  SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer , 2009 .

[12]  Asunción Gómez-Pérez,et al.  Guidelines for Benchmarking the Performance of Ontology Management APIs , 2005, SEMWEB.

[13]  York Sure-Vetter,et al.  Establishing a Multi-Thesauri-Scenario based on SKOS and Cross-Concordances , 2010, Dublin Core Conference.

[14]  Brigitte Kerhervé,et al.  A Model-Driven Approach to SKOS Implementation , 2010, 2010 Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services.

[15]  Francesca Severino,et al.  The Term Development in the Thesauri of International Organisations , 2007 .

[16]  Staðlaráð Íslands,et al.  Heimildaskráning : leiðbeiningar um gerð og þróun kerfisbundinna efnisorðaskráa á einu tungumáli = Documentation : guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri , 1991 .

[17]  Joshua J. Bloch.  How to design a good API and why it matters , 2006, OOPSLA '06.

[18]  Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez,et al.  Advantages of thesaurus representation using the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) compared with proposed alternatives , 2009 .

[19]  Asunción Gómez-Pérez,et al.  Benchmarking the RDF(S) Interoperability of Ontology Tools , 2007, SEKE.

[20]  Andreas Blumauer.  SKOS Thesaurus Management based on Linked Data with Poolparty , 2009, I-SEMANTICS.

[21]  Lynda Hardman,et al.  Supporting subject matter annotation using heterogeneous thesauri: A user study in Web data reuse , 2009, Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud..

[22]  Sean Bechhofer,et al.  SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference , 2009 .

[23]  Ginevra Peruginelli,et al.  Report on execution and results of the interoperability tests , 2007 .

[24]  Asunción Gómez-Pérez,et al.  Benchmarking in the Semantic Web , 2008 .