As Google has posted a couple of weeks ago, it´s easier now than ever before to “add sets of synonyms specific to … website content and to … trigger search expansion, so that a query automatically triggers results for synonymous terms.” See blog post: Google Custom Search – Synonyms made easy.

With PoolParty release 2.7, which will be announced in a few days officially, users will be able to generate different kinds of reports like e.g. a “hierarchy report” of a SKOSSimple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to ... thesaurusA thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than ....

One specific formatA file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for ... which can be generated with PoolParty´s thesaurus report feature is an XMLExtensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. XML's design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and ... format to describe synonym lists for Google Custom Search as described here. An example of how this feature can be used to improve a search engine can be found at reegle which is a search engine for renewable energy and energy efficiency provided by REEEP and REN21 .

PoolParty thesaurus reports are very flexible and easily adaptable for specific needs. The report data is selected via a SPARQLSPARQL is an RDF query language; its name is a recursive acronym that stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It was standardized by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is considered a key semantic web technology. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL ... query and can be rendered in any format using the popular template engine Apache Velocity.

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