Secondary Information Structuring- A Methodology for the Vertical Interrelation of Information Resources

Secondary Information Structuring is the key part of an architecture, which is used for the knowledge-based, vertical interrelation of information resources: Primary Information Structuring (document grammars, marked-up instance documents) and abstract, conceptual resources (conceptual models, ontologies). Secondary Information Structuring encompasses a small set of predicates to select and interrelate declarations in document grammars and information items in- possibly multiple- instance documents. The selections are integrated in a conceptual hierarchy, which then can be used to conceptually validate and query document grammars and instance documents, to transform instance documents, and to relate the selected information from Primary Information Structuring to other conceptual resources. An integrated implementation of the approach, using information from document grammars and multiple instance documents, is currently under development. Two applications from the field of linguistics and multilingual documentation of document grammars have been developed so far