“What’s new?” and “What has changed?” are questions users of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), such as thesauri or classifications, ask when a new version is published. Much more so, when a thesaurus existing since the 1990s has been completely revised, subject area for subject area. After four intermediately published versions in as many consecutive years, STW Thesaurus for Economics has b...

Wikidata has been created in order to support all of the roughly 300 Wikipedia projects. Besides interlinking all Wikipedia pages about a specific item – e.g., a person in different languages, it also connects to more than 1500 different sources of authority information. We will present lessons learned from using Wikidata as a linking hub for two personal name authorities in economics (GND and ...

As part of the publication of the AGROVOC thesaurus as Linked Data (LD), AGROVOC is now mapped with six well-known thesauri in the agricultural domain, i.e., EUROVOC, NALT, GEMET, STW, TheSoz, RAMAEU. To find matching candidates, known matching algorithms discussed in the literature and available from public API were used. Results were evaluated by a domain expert, and almost total precision ob...

a NXP Semiconductors, Central R&D, FT/Physical Design Methods/Mathematics, High Tech Campus 46, 5656 AE Eindhoven, the Netherlands; {Joost.Rommes,Jan.ter.Maten, Wil.Schilders}@nxp.com. b Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, Wilhelminalaan 10, 3732 GK De Bilt, the Netherlands; [email protected]. c Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Angewandte Mathematik/Numerische Analysis, Gauß...

Topics in a corpus evolve in time. Describing the way this evolution occurs helps us to understand the change in the prominence of concepts: one can gain intuition about what concepts become more important in a given topic, which substitute others, or which concepts become related. By defining topics as weighted collections of concepts from a fixed taxonomy, it is possible to know if said evolu...

The River Liffey is the main source of diffuse nutrients to Dublin Bay and accounts for some 85% of all riverine inputs. The total load from the various rivers has been calculated at some 6601 kg N d(1) and 748 kg P d(1), of which around 82% and 52% are in the form of DIN and phosphate respectively. Sewage discharge adds almost the same again to the load, with minor contributions from the sedim...

Assays of seven mutant stocks exposed a ten-fold range in spontaneous Minute mutation frequencies. Genetic analysis of the difference between the px (0.0006 Minutes) and bri (0.0042 Minutes) stocks revealed that each of these stocks lacks one of two complementary, autosomally transmitted, maternally expressed, dominant suppressors of a dominant 3-linked mutator present in the bri stock. Analysi...

∗ ) This research is supported by PROGRESS, the embedded system research program of the Dutch organization for Scientific Research, NWO, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs an the Technology Foundation STW. Abstract – This PROGRESS project (TES.5224) traces a design framework for implementing embedded real-time software for control applications by exploiting its natural concurrency. The pape...