Published Subject Indicators For Modelling Thesaurii

PSI Metadata

DescriptionPublished Subjects for creating a model of a thesaurus.
Publisherhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/tecqhuila/#kal_ahmed
Creatorhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/tecqhuila/#kal_ahmed
Languagehttp://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/language.xtm#en
Version0.3
StatusDraft
Date Published2003/11/06
PSDS Docshttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/
http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/thesaurus.xtm

Index Of Subjects

Broaderhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#broader
Broader / Narrowerhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#broader-narrower
Concepthttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#concept
Concept Relationshiphttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#concept-relationship
Editor Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#editor-note
General Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#general-note
Hierarchy Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#hierarchy-note
History Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#history-note
Narrowerhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#narrower
Non-Preferred Termhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#non-preferred-term
Parthttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#part
Part-Wholehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#part-whole
Preferred Termhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#preferred-term
Related Concepthttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#related-concept
Related Termhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#related-term
Scope Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#scope-note
Synonymhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#synonym
Synonymous Termshttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#synonymous-terms
Termhttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term
Term Relationshiphttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term-relationship
Term Warranthttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term-warrant
Translation Notehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#translation-note
Wholehttp://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#whole

Term

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term

A type of topic which models a single term in a thesaurus. A term is a single word or phrase in a thesaurus.

Concept

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#concept

A type of topic which models the concept represented by a collection of synonymous terms in a thesaurus.

Scope Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#scope-note

A type of occurrence of a Term which either references or contains information related to the thesaurus term. Typically scope notes are provided by the thesaurus compiler or editor. The scope note resource may be either contained inline as resource data or referenced from an occurrence of this type.

Term Warrant

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term-warrant

A type of occurrence of a Term which references a source which justifies the use of the term in the thesaurus. A warrant may be referenced either by a link or by a citation entered as inline resource data in the occurrence. Multiple warrants should be modelled using one occurrence of this type per topic.

Term Relationship

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#term-relationship

The base class for all term-to-term relationships contained in a thesaurus including, but not limited to Broader / Narrower, Part-Whole and

Concept Relationship

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#concept-relationship

The base class for all concept-to-concept relationships contained in a thesaurus including, but not limited to Broader / Narrower and Part-Whole.

Broader / Narrower

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#broader-narrower

A type of association between two entries in a thesaurus (either Term instances or Concept instances). In an association of this type, at one topic must play the role type Broader, and one topic must play the role type Narrower

Broader

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#broader

A type of association role in an association of the type Broader / Narrower. The player of this role is the entry with the broader definition of the two.

Narrower

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#narrower

A type of association role in an association of the type Broader / Narrower. The player of this role is the entry with the narrower definition of the two.

Synonymous Terms

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#synonymous-terms

A type of association between two or more Term instances which asserts that all of the terms represented by the topics which are role players in the association are considered synonymous by the thesaurus. In an association of this type, EITHER all topics must play the role type Synonym OR one topic must play the role type Preferred Term and one topic must play the role type Non-Preferred Term.

Preferred Term

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#preferred-term

A type of association role which indicates that the role player or role players are terms preferred for use in the domain covered by the thesaurus.

Non-Preferred Term

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#non-preferred-term

The concept of a thesaurus term whose use is deprecated in favour of some preferred term.

When modelling a topic map using the topic-per-term pattern: A type of association role which indicates that the role player or role players are Term instances whose use is deprecated in the domain covered by the thesaurus.

When modelling a thesaurus using the topic-per-concept pattern: A topic in the scope of a base name of a Concept topic where the name string is the non-preferred term in the thesaurus being modelled.

Synonym

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#synonym

A type of association role. In an association of the typeSynonymous Terms this role indicates that the role player or role players are all considered to be synonymous with one another.

Part-Whole

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#part-whole

A type of association which expresses a relationship between two or more terms where or more topics where one topic, playing the role Whole represents a whole thing and one or more topics playing the role Part each represent some component of the whole.

Part

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#part

A type of association role. In an association of the type Part-Whole, the role player or role players are all considered to be components which go to make up the player of the Whole role.

Whole

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#whole

A type of association role. In an association of the type Part-Whole, the player of this role is the topic which represents the thing which is constructed of the components represented by players of the Part role.

Editor Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#editor-note

A subclass of Scope Note providing editorial information regarding the entry.

General Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#general-note

A subclass of Scope Note providing general information regarding the entry.

Hierarchy Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#hierarchy-note

A subclass of Scope Note providing information regarding the placement of the entry in the thesaurus hierarchy.

History Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#history-note

A subclass of Scope Note providing historical information regarding the entry.

Translation Note

Published Subject Identifier: http://www.techquila.com/psi/thesaurus/#translation-note

A subclass of Scope Note providing translation information regarding the entry.