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Ontologies and Thesauri - Tools for Effective Information Access  Ontologies and Thesauri Problem Statement Explanation of a term: What is an ushebti, what a shawabty ? What did it mean, and when? What was is made for? How was it made? Where was it used ?  Ontologies and Thesauri Problem Statement Searching for comparative Studies How do I spell It? Ushabti, ushabty, ushebti, shawtaby? Will it be written the same everywhere? Should I call it : “grave goods”(AAT), “burial figurines”,“dolls”, “afterlife helpers”, “personality surrogate”, “burial ritual”? And what about “xαρ?νειο, δαν?κη” ? Should I call it: “toll”, “cheap coin”, “afterlife helper”, “corpse equipment”, “burial gift”, “burial rites” ? Would be “grave goods” distinctive enough?  Ontologies and Thesauri Problem Statement How to find the characteristic term itself ? How to discover related literature ? Relevant abstractions are not standardized How to make statistics even about the same item? The same items can be referred in a thousand ways How to do comparative studies by features ? Implicit features are not declared, explicit features need systematic documentation Ontologies and Thesauri Problem Statement Find well defined concepts uniquely identifiable without dialogue with wide agreement for reproducible agreement between classification and retrieval Co-operative work on shared knowledge bases (Knowledge Organisation Systems, KOS): knowledge elicitation from experts many small agreements and data integration structural evolution publication - incorporation at user sites Ontologies and Thesauri Usage Environment  Ontologies and Thesauri About Thesauri Thesauri: find good terms by associations Peter Mark Roget,1852, “Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases” Linguistic thesauri TEI, FDIS ISO12620, MARTIF, VHG Dictionary editing, term based, presentation oriented Conceptual thesauri From library science, subject classification Ranganathan 1925-1965: pri