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- Data model influences design of
- data publication formats
- programmatic interfaces
- Data model also determines management and maintenance strategies and procedures
- Data model often implicit in a standard, not formally specified …
- E.g. BS 8723, ANSI Z39.19
- Some ‘standards’ to consider …
- ANSI Z39.19, BS 8723
- "Traditional thesaurus" ...
- model described in prose by BS 8723, ANSI Z39.19
- Only terms reified, concepts implicit
- ANSI Z39.19, BS 8723
- SKOS Core
- Explicitly concept-oriented data model
- Specified formally using RDFS/OWL
- SKOS Core
- OWL
- Class/instance-oriented model (“ontologies”)
- Formally specified via model-theoretic semantics
- OWL
- TMF - Terminology Markup Framework ISO 16642 (ISO TC 37)
- Concept-oriented
- Specified using UML
- Really a framework for designing XML formats
- TMF - Terminology Markup Framework ISO 16642 (ISO TC 37)
- ISO Topic Maps
- Topics, Associations, Occurrences, Roles...
- ISO Topic Maps
Comments:
- ANSI Z39.19, BS 8723, SKOS Core, TMF broadly aligned …
- (I.e. T-O vs. C-O not necessarily at odds)
- however N.B. choice of T-O vs. C-O model as foundation has implications for management/maintenance and URI use.
- Relationship to ontologies (OWL) … ?
- Topic maps … ?