[open-government] Open Data Thesaurus went online today

Mon May 16 18:06:16 UTC 2011

Excellent work. Hopefully I can integrate this into Open Data Manual.

Tim McNamara

On 17 May 2011 01:16, Thomas Thurner <t.thurner at semantic-web.at> wrote:

> Dear colleagues!
>
> I'm happy to announce the start of the first Open Data Thesaurus (
> http://vocabulary.semantic-web.at/PoolParty/wiki/OpenData)
>
> The Open Data Thesaurus is a collection of key concepts and entities, their
> definitions and semantic links. Following the principle of "eat your own dog
> food" this thesaurus is available in machine-readable form based on open W3C
> standards and under a Creative Commons license. The thesaurus can thus be
> integrated into other applications, such as for creating mashups, or for
> indexing of documents. The thesaurus is available in English and German.
>
> The thesaurus is maintained and expanded constantly by the Semantic Web
> Company in cooperation with Open Knowledge Forum Austria.
> We warmly invite to co-manage this thesaurus. So please contact Andreas (
> a.blumauer at semantic-web.at) to get signed up.
>
> Greetings
> Thomas
>
> German:
> http://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/3136-thesaurus-fuer-open-data-initiiert.php
>
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