Integrating ontologies and thesauri for RDF schema creation and metadata querying

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-236

  Amann, Bernd ^a,b   Fundulaki, Irini ^a,b   Scholl, Michel ^a,b  

^a CEDRIC CNAM   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Domain model; Mediation; Metadata querying; Ontologies; Thesauri

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000722497     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007990000037     Document Type: Article

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