[topicmapmail] Topic Map conversion of WordNet available

[Aki Kivelä]

On 14 Jul 2007 at 0:57, Murray Altheim wrote:

> 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?


I think the original WordNet license found at 

  http://wordnet.princeton.edu/license

is the primary license to follow although W3 may have also some 
restrictions such as

  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231

Our intention is to provide the topic map version free as long the 
original copyright holders allow. As the conversion was very easy 
(anyone can do it within hours) we don't see ourselves "real" 
contributors. Our agenda is to promote Wandora and it's capabilities 
:o)

Question: Does anyone have recent experiences on license issues of 
topic mapping W3's RDFs and OWLs?


> 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.

This is something I must look little deeper as this was my first 
glimpse to z39.19. I quess you are looking for some kind on mapping 
between WordNet topics and concepts of z39.19? Do you refer z39.19 
concepts found in

  http://www.altheim.com/ceryle/psi/ceryle/z39.19.ltm


> 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.


I think this is just what topic maps are good in.

Best Regards,
Aki Kivela
Grip Studios Interactive



> Cheers,
> 
> Murray
> 
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