Constructing a Subject Gateway

For the technically inclined, this article on Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, RDF and Topic Maps offers some guidance on the technical database aspects of building a taxonomy.

In this research project, the authors built a software tool that would make it easier to build a subject gateway, essentially a taxonomy for subject access, and using the metadata definitions of Dublin Core. The article described the relational database structure.

Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, RDF and Topic Maps by Jesús Tramullas, Department of Librarianship and Information Sciences, and
Piedad Garrido, Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Zaragoza University, Zaragoza, Spain; Information Research, Vol. 11 No. 2, January 2006

http://informationr.net/ir/11-2/paper248.html