Rob Larson
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

By Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus
New York Times Open Blog

For nearly 100 years, we have maintained a thesaurus to tag The New York Times. The thesaurus consists of over a million terms organized into five controlled vocabularies: subjects, personal names, organizations, geographic locations and the titles of creative works (books, movies, plays, etc).

At last week’s Semantic Technology Conference, we announced our intention to publish The New York Times thesaurus under a license that will allow the community to both use it and contribute back to it. The results will, in time, prepare The Times to enter the linked data cloud.

… Our hope is that the community will link our thesaurus to existing taxonomies and, when we release the tags for the deep archive, help normalize the terms.

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