[Sigia-l] locations of synonym terms in hierarchical taxonomies?

[alfred at thunderstick.com]

In the DMOZ case it is more like Unix symlinks - everything below the two
related points is the same.

If you go to http://www.dmoz.org and click Arts, then Museums, the
category is listed in the breadcrumbs as
Top:Reference:Museums:Arts and Entertainment

(which also points out that breadcrumbs in this type of system
need to be dynamic or at least vaguely intelligent)...

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Eric Scheid wrote:

> On 17/11/03 2:39 PM, "alfred at thunderstick.com" <alfred at thunderstick.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If you look at the DMOZ hierarchy, aka google directory, aka yahoo
> > directory - they indicate synonyms with @ links - if you browse those
> > directories you will see examples at different levels.
>
> Thanks. at least one example is good news.
>
> Do all links which appear under one category also appear at their @synonym
> category, or does it work more like RT than SYN? I would expect some overlap
> between Related Terms.
>
> The question then becomes are they doing something unconventional? Or, in
> other words, do the various ThesaurusDesign tools (eg. MultiTes) permit
> non-hierarchical synonyms?
>
> e.
>
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