Dear Gary, dear all,
So far, it was not possible to have a stable link to any individual term
definition in the TeD-T wiki. Beside the PDF and RDF export, there is
now a third export format. This is simple HTML, but it has the advantage
of containing internal anchors to any single term *and* any definition
of it:
http://smw-rda.esc.rzg.mpg.de/exports/index.html
On the top, you will find colored buttons which are linking a) to any
term (brown) and b) extra buttons for any definition (green). So it is
now possible to access "Active collection" as a whole:
http://smw-rda.esc.rzg.mpg.de/exports/index.html#Active_Collection
In addition to linking to the wole term, you can jump via link directly
to any definition of that term:
http://smw-rda.esc.rzg.mpg.de/exports/index.html#Active_Collection_1
resp.
http://smw-rda.esc.rzg.mpg.de/exports/index.html#Active_Collection_2
Best,
Tom
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May
2016
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Author: Raphael Ritz
Date: 18 May, 2016
Thanks Tom.
And to stress the obvious:
This now makes it possible to refer to individual definitions
via unique URLs and - if we want that - assign handles/PIDs
to those definitions.
Also, as the naming 'export' suggests, this is a static HTML
representation of the current content of the tool. There is
no coupling meaning content can further evolve on the
tool without this export changing.
On the other hand it is of course possible to create further
snapshots like this later on thereby making "vocabulary
releases" as we envisioned early on.
With respect to the efforts to cast TeD-T's content into SKOS
this is to be seen complementary. The difficulty I'm still seeing
when trying to export TeD-T's content as SKOS is that in
TeD-T we've adopted a "term-centric" approach whereas
SKOS requires a concept centered view. It is still not clear to
me how we should deal with cases where we have multiple
definitions which typically hints at the fact that such a term
is used to refer to different concepts but then that's not necessarily
always the case. So for this I'm afraid we need to invest more
thinking and clarification in order to proceed.
Happy to present and discuss this in Nottingham.
Cheers,
Raphael