Norman Gray is researcher with the Astronomy Group of University of Glasgow. Among other projects he is member in the IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance) which uses SKOS and PoolParty for developing and utilizing vocabularies in a collaborative way. Q: Norman, please tell us about your project and its purpose. The astronomy and astrophysics communities of the major countries launched… read more →
Les Kneebone is Project Manager at Education Services Australia Ltd. Among other projects he is responsible for Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). PoolParty Team asked Les a couple of questions about thesaurus management, linked data and the semantic web: 1. What is the purpose of your thesaurus project in general? ESA manages a number of vocabularies used in Australian curriculum organization… read more →
PoolParty 2.7 offers new and comfortable ways to enrich any SKOS thesaurus with additional facts from the semantic web (see: LOD cloud). This functionality (which was extended significantly with version 2.7 in June 2010) supports any thesaurus manager to generate much richer knowledge models (ontologies) around specific domains than ever before (without facing high extra costs due to additional research).… read more →
