Knowledge Organisation for Digital Libraries

Today research data and output from nearly every disciplinary and interdisciplinary domain exist also (and sometimes only) in digital form. Consequently, to ensure the data’s efficient retrieval as well as long term usage and relevance, Knowledge Organisation and its tools/systems, i.e. lexical resources like thesauri and ontologies, play a major role in the Digital Libraries world. In this paper we discuss our approach of pursuing the conversion and mapping of two of the most promising lexical resources, the Information Coding Classification and the MultiWordNet, after having converted them into the EuroWordNet RDF/OWL format. In a second step we show how to integrate this additional knowledge into a domain Knowledge Organisation System (KOS). In the end we will have a presentation of the method and mapping as well as a use case for its evaluation for Information Retrieval purposes.