  The Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) is a Linked Dataset in SKOS
format, which serves as a crucial instrument for information retrieval based on
e.g. document indexing or search term recommendation. Thesauri and similar
controlled vocabularies build a linking bridge for other datasets from the
Linked Open Data cloud - even between different domains. The information and
knowledge, which is exposed by such links, can be processed by Semantic Web
applications. In this article the conversion process of the TheSoz to SKOS is
described including the analysis of the original dataset and its structure, the
mapping to adequate SKOS classes and properties, and the technical conversion.
Furthermore mappings to other datasets and the appliance of the TheSoz are
presented. Finally, limitations and modeling issues encountered during the
creation process are discussed.

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