Implementing the XQuery full-text thesaurus match option

[Alistair Miles]

Hi Paul,

Regarding SKOS [1, 2], I'd be happy to try and answer any questions
you have. You might also ask on the http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk mailing
list, which is the SKOS community mailing list, and which would also
be a good place to ask for recent information on published SKOS data.

I'm sorry there is no definitive list of available SKOS data, but two
other good places to look for information on published SKOS data are
the SKOS implementation report [3] and the SKOS datazone wiki page
[4].

One problem you may encounter when processing the data using XQuery is
that SKOS is not an XML schema, it is an RDF schema, so any SKOS data
you find will be RDF/XML (or turtle or n-triples). Because RDF/XML has
lots of flexibility in the way the XML can be structured, you may find
XQueries written for one dataset won't work for another. The only
foolproof way to work around this is to treat the data as triples and
query the data with SPARQL.

Hth,

Alistair

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/reference/20090315/implementation.html
[4] http://esw.w3.org/SkosDev/DataZone

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Alistair Miles
Head of Epidemiological Informatics
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