Ecoterm:Publication

• General principle: publish data
• XML
  • Thesaurus tradition (e.g. Zthes …)
  • Terminology (I.e. TC 37) tradition (e.g. TBX, implementation of TMF)
  • Topic maps tradition … XTM
• RDF
  • SKOS Core
  • RDFS/OWL
• OWL
  • Based on RDF
  • Ontologies for the web
  • W3C recommendation
• Comments
  • N.B. XTM and anything based on RDF (I.e. SKOS Core, OWL) designed for a distributed information environment
    • I.e. use URIs, support data linking, merging
  • Others not (designed for point-to-point transfer)

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