Formal semantics PPT

A new PoolParty Thesaurus Manager (PPT) release is available now: Version 3.2.0 is a major release offering lots of great new functionalities and improvements.

The main new features are:

• Thesaurus Alignment

  PoolParty’s Project Linking feature is a comfortable tool to align thesauri, e.g. maintained by different departments or organizations. The project linking process has been simplified and improved. In the new Project Linking view you you can browse the tree of your linked project and create mappings between concepts by drag and drop.

  

• Dynamic Lists (SPARQLSPARQL is an RDF query language; its name is a recursive acronym that stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It was standardized by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is considered a key semantic web technology. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL ... lists)

  SPARQL lists are lists of concepts or specific data from concepts based on pre-defined SPARQL queries. The SPARQL list framework is very flexible and makes dynamic access from third-party applications to specific lists of concepts of your thesaurus possible: it is easy to add new lists on demand, e.g. to define certain workflow tasks, or to display all concepts of a defined status for further editing.

• SKOSSimple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to ... Collections

  SKOS Collections are now available within the PoolParty Thesaurus Server as part of the W3C SKOS standardInternational standards are standards developed by international standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use, worldwide. The most prominent organisation is the International Organization for Standardization. International standards may be used either . As stated on W3C’s website about SKOS, “Collections are useful where a group of concepts shares something in common, and it is convenient to group them under a common label, or where some concepts can be placed in a meaningful order.”

• Dynamic Lists (SPARQL lists)

• SKOS Collections

  SKOS Collections are now available within the PoolParty Thesaurus Server as part of the W3C SKOS standard. As stated on W3C’s website about SKOS, “Collections are useful where a group of concepts shares something in common, and it is convenient to group them under a common label, or where some concepts can be placed in a meaningful order.”