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Alignments 

Alignments are common in database interoperability projects and tasks however, from the perspective of the semantic web we are referring to ontology alignments when a variable degree of correspondence can be established between concepts that belong to different controlled vocabularies. It is in the nature of controlled vocabularies that a given concept from one vocabulary can have a level of correspondence with a concept in a different vocabulary, no matter if these controlled vocabularies comply with the same or with different ontologies.

There are different possible levels of correspondence between concepts from different controlled vocabularies. We refer to these as follows:

  • Has exact match
  • Has close match
  • Has broad match
  • Has narrow match
  • Has related match

There is a certain similarity between ontology alignments and semantic relationships however, while ontology alignments describe the proximity in the correspondence between two concepts from separate controlled vocabularies, semantic relationships are established between concepts of the same controlled vocabulary.

The following alignments are available for download:

EU Vocabularies - Template display
Asset classification Alignment adms assettype
Country Alignment WikiData (EDOAL)
Country Alignment WikiData (SKOS)
DET Alignment EuroVoc
Data theme Alignment Inspire theme
EuroSciVoc Alignment Agrovoc
EuroSciVoc Alignment EuroVoc
EuroSciVoc Alignment MeSH using EuroVoc
EuroVoc Alignment Agrovoc
EuroVoc Alignment Country
EuroVoc Alignment ESCO
EuroVoc Alignment Eclas
EuroVoc Alignment Eige
EuroVoc Alignment Gemet
EuroVoc Alignment Inspire
EuroVoc Alignment LCSH
EuroVoc Alignment Rameau
EuroVoc Alignment ThesSoz
EuroVoc Alignment UMTHES
EuroVoc Alignment Unbis
EuroVoc Alignment Unesco
EuroVoc Alignment WikiData
EuroVoc Alignment ZBW
EuroVoc Alignment gnd
EuroVoc Alignment mesh