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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.  
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In order to correctly configure OpenKM thesaurus you must set this OpenKM.cfg entries:
 
In order to correctly configure OpenKM thesaurus you must set this OpenKM.cfg entries:
kea.thesaurus.skos.file
 
kea.thesaurus.owl.file
 
kea.thesaurus.base.url
 
#kea.thesaurus.vocabulary.serql=SELECT X,UID FROM {X} skos:prefLabel {UID} WHERE lang(UID) ="en" USING NAMESPACE rdf=<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>, skos=<http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>,rdfs=<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>,dc=<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>, dcterms=<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>, foaf=<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
 
 
 
kea.thesaurus.tree.root
 
kea.thesaurus.tree.childs
 
 
  
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kea.thesaurus.owl.file
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kea.thesaurus.base.url
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kea.thesaurus.tree.childs
  
 
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Revision as of 11:54, 20 September 2010


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Nota clasica.png Thesaurus is only available from OpenKM 5.0 and upper.

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.


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


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[1] ( FAO ), NASA Thesuarus[2], UNESCO Thesaurus[3], Public administration Thesaurus[4] among others. Someones are free and others have some usage restrictions.


In order to correctly configure OpenKM thesaurus you must set this OpenKM.cfg entries:

kea.thesaurus.skos.file
kea.thesaurus.owl.file
kea.thesaurus.base.url
kea.thesaurus.tree.childs

You could be interested in:

  • A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL[5]
  • SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System[6]