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Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web

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The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (ESWS 2004)

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Ontologies will play a central role in the development of the Semantic Web. It is unrealistic to assume that such ontologies will be developed from scratch. Rather, we assume that existing resources such as thesauri and lexical data bases will be reused in the development of ontologies for the Semantic Web. In this paper we describe a method for converting existing source material to a representation that is compatible with Semantic Web languages such as RDF(S) and OWL. The method is illustrated with three case studies: converting WordNet, AAT and MeSH to RDF(S) and OWL.

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  1. Social Science Informatics (SWI), University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Bob Wielinga & Jan Wielemaker

  2. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Guus Schreiber & Mark van Assem

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  1. Cisco Systems, Inc., 95134, San Jose, CA, USA

    Christoph J. Bussler

  2. Next Generation Web Research Group, BT Group,, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK

    John Davies

  3. DERI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Dieter Fensel

  4. Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

    Rudi Studer

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Wielinga, B., Wielemaker, J., Schreiber, G., van Assem, M. (2004). Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web. In: Bussler, C.J., Davies, J., Fensel, D., Studer, R. (eds) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25956-5_21

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