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A '''thesaurus''' is a book that lists '''words grouped together according to similarity of meaning''' (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. | A '''thesaurus''' is a book that lists '''words grouped together according to similarity of meaning''' (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. | ||
Revision as of 16:29, 21 October 2010
A thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.
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Thesaurus is only available starting from OpenKM 5.0. |
In Information Science, Library Science, and Information Technology, specialized thesauri are designed for information retrieval. They are a type of controlled vocabulary, for indexing or tagging purposes. If you want more information about term you can take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus.
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OpenKM can working with thesaurus defined in .owl and .rdfs formats. |
There's a great utility http://protege.stanford.edu/ to create and maintaining your own thesaurus. In Internet can be found specific thesaurus, for example Agrovoc ( FAO ), NASA Thesuarus, UNESCO Thesaurus, Public administration Thesaurus among others. Someones are free and others have some usage restrictions.
In order to configure correctly OpenKM thesaurus you must set this OpenKM.cfg entries:
kea.thesaurus.owl.file kea.thesaurus.base.url kea.thesaurus.tree.root kea.thesaurus.tree.childs
Set OWL file
kea.thesaurus.owl.file=/vocabulary/file.owl
Set base url
kea.thesaurus.base.url=http://www.someweb.org
Query to get root node
kea.thesaurus.tree.root=SELECT DISTINCT UID, TEXT FROM {UID} Y {OBJECT}, {UID} rdfs:label {TEXT} ; [rdfs:subClassOf {CLAZZ}] where not bound(CLAZZ)
and lang(TEXT)="en" USING NAMESPACE foaf=<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>, dcterms=<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>,
rdf=<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>, owl=<http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>, rdfs=<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>,
skos=<http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>, dc=<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
Query to get childs node
kea.thesaurus.tree.childs=SELECT DISTINCT UID, TEXT FROM {UID} rdfs:subClassOf {CLAZZ}, {UID} rdfs:label {TEXT} where xsd:string(CLAZZ) =
"RDFparentID" and lang(TEXT)="en" USING NAMESPACE foaf=<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>, dcterms=<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>,
rdf=<http://www.w3.org /1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>, owl=<http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>, rdfs=<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>,
skos=<http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>, dc=<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
You could be interested in:
Also check Thesaurus full example 
for a step-by-step guide.
