[topicmapmail] Topic Map conversion of WordNet available

[Murray Altheim]

Aki Kivel wrote:
> 
> Announcing that we have converted the WordNet 
> (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/) to a topic map. Topic map is in XTM 
> format. Wandora project file is also available. Both versions are 
> downloadable at
> 
> http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/index.php?title=Topic_map_conversi
> on_of_WordNet
> 
> Topic map version is based on W3's work on RDF version of WordNet 
> (http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/). I welcome suggestions for topic 
> map conversion improvements.

Aki,

Thanks very much for this announcement; this will be a most valuable
addition to the corpus of Topic Maps. I have one question and a
suggestion:

Q: In addition to the WordNet license are there any additional license
    restrictions on the XTM version you've announced above?

S: Either within the Topic Map or in a supplemental mapping it would
    be very helpful to have a crosswalk to z39.19 (thesaurus standard)
    for all relationships deemed equivalent (and of the more important
    ones in WordNet there are functional if not definitional equivalents
    in z39.19). If there was any question of equivalency in a WordNet
    relation you could simply declare such an equivalency (i.e., by
    writ) in the Topic Map, such that users of the Topic Map could then
    use it in an interchange capacity as well. It would be appropriate
    for the authors of the Topic Map to create the crosswalk rather
    than a different party.

The work I've been doing lately uses z39.19 relations in that way,
hence I could then use the WordNet Topic Map without modification,
and my Topic Maps could then be merged with anyone else's using
either the WordNet Topic Maps or any of the z39.19-based relations
mapped across Topic names (with the normal provisos on proper use
of parts of speech, etc.). This would be a major boon.

Cheers,

Murray

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