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Subject: What about Topic Maps
Date: 2005-10-25 23:28:38
From: Lars Marius Garshol
Response to: What about Topic Maps

The relationship between SKOS and Topic Maps is relatively straightforward: SKOS is an RDF vocabulary for representing thesauri, while Topic Maps is an ontology technology that is more-or-less equivalent to RDF itself.


You can use SKOS as a Topic Maps vocabulary if you want (as described here
http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/10.html).


In the bigger picture of things, SKOS lets you represent thesauri, but Topic Maps let you go a lot further. For more detail, see
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html


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