PoolParty 2.7 offers new and comfortable ways to enrich any
SKOS thesaurus with additional facts from the semantic web (see:
LOD cloud). This functionality (which was extended significantly with version 2.7 in June 2010) supports any thesaurus manager to generate much richer knowledge models (ontologies) around specific domains than ever before (without facing high extra costs due to additional research). There are at least three arguments why one should consider building such “extended thesauri”:
- Use even more metadata to describe your resources and improve navigation and semantic search functionalities significantly
- Publish (at least) parts of your metadata / knowledge models as linked (open) data to stimulate innovative services around your contents on top of network effects
- Use linked data for data integration and semantic mashups; combine your own contents with contents from the web to improve your business intelligence
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