A new face of thesauri

It was an amazing experience to work on making a new face of thesauri. In order to accomplish the work, we had to map 5 thesauri together. It was not so difficult for me to work on mapping activities, since I had an research experience on this field. It was difficult to understand the formats of different thesauri. I took decision that I would consider only concept URIs and its labels. It worked perfectly.

So, I parsed all the files and put into the database. Later on, I run my existing routine which was build on INRIA mapping API. I considered 8 eight element level matchers in order to perform these matching tasks. The results of all mappings had been verified by a domain expert . Here is an example,

The concept “Europe” from AGROVOC is mapped with NAL, EUROVOC, LCSH, GEMET and STW thesauri.

One of the goal is to make mother thesaurus as a reference vocabulary so that it can be used to retrieve the information, managing the information. Furthermore, it can be used also further mapping purposes taking into account as background knowledge. It is a new face of thesauri.