As we are not the only people thinking about these topics, there has
already been a lot of work in this area. It is relatively easy to find
some half-baked implementations in RDF, e.g. datahub.io,
joinedupdata.org, and the unstats web page Miguel linked is great.
However, the best resource I have found is here:
http://semstats.org/2016/challenge/classifications, with the actual
data available here:
http://semstats.org/2016/challenge/challenge-data. The repo to
generate these correspondences is https://github.com/FranckCo/Stamina,
with documentation here:
https://github.com/FranckCo/Stamina/blob/master/doc/content.md.

This data was produced by a project whose website is currently down
(stamina-project.org); the easiest alternative would be to work with
the original creator, but it doesn't look like he is responding to
issues (I am also writing the creator). There are a few other things
to clean up in this data, see e.g.
https://github.com/FranckCo/Stamina/issues/11 (and others).

Not sure about the next steps, except that I don't think we can create
a better wheel than professionals already have. Maybe we can polish
their wheel a bit, and use it?

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