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Architecting a Cross-Disciplinary Thesaurus for the Semantic Web: 

Architecting a Cross-Disciplinary Thesaurus for the Semantic Web W. Davenport Robertson National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Jane Greenberg School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2004), Shanghai, China, 14 October 2004

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http://www.ils.unc.edu/mrc/mrg.index: 

http://www.ils.unc.edu/mrc/mrg.index

Previous Findings on Metadata: 

Previous Findings on Metadata Need for subject metadata Need for authority list of terms Authors want guidance for subject metadata Authors would like cataloger assistance Searchers dissatisfied with surrogates

Needs Assessment for an Environmental Health Thesaurus: 

Needs Assessment for an Environmental Health Thesaurus “Environmental health” is cross-disciplinary Environmental health information is crucial for our well-being. A controlled vocabulary is necessary for retrieving accurate information No thesaurus adequately covers environmental health today Recommendation: combine parts of existing thesauri

Decentralized Semantics Approach for a Metathesaurus: 

Decentralized Semantics Approach for a Metathesaurus Applied examples Metadata author Web site searcher W3C interoperability principles for shared ontologies (OWL Web Ontology Language) Advantages of inter-disciplinary model Integral to the Semantic Web Distributed resources reduce load on individual components Individual components can maintain their independence Components can be re-used in other metathesauri

Decentralized Semantics Requirements: 

Decentralized Semantics Requirements Semantic Web thesaurus standards under development (http://www.w3.org/2004/03/thes-tf/mission) Open Biological Ontologies example of a consolidated registry (http://obo.sourceforge.net/) SWOOP example of software that integrates multiple ontologies for searching (http://www.mindswap.org/)

Decentralized Metathesaurus Requirements: 

Decentralized Metathesaurus Requirements Components must be open, preferably open source Component ontologies must be listed in an ontology registry Components must use Semantic Web standards Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) RDF, RDFS, XML OWL Web Ontology Language

Conclusion: 

Conclusion Standards and tools are still under development Appropriate domain components for an environmental health metathesaurus have to be selected (EPA, NCI, MeSH, etc.) Organizations have to be convinced of value Thesauri have to be converted to Semantic Web ontologies This model can be applied to other cross-disciplinary fields