SKOS

[Tony Linde]

Hi Bernard, 

It might well be useful in VOTech but I'm not sure we've time to evaluate it
at this stage - perhaps later on.

If anyone does intend to evaluate it, the following might be useful:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050517/
 (Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web)

Perhaps trying to convert the IAU Thesaurus to RDF using SKOS might be
useful.

Are there any tools for creating SKOS documents, like Protégé for OWL?

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-semantics at eso.org 
> [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org] On Behalf Of Bernard Vatant
> Sent: 24 October 2005 09:20
> To: semantics at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: SKOS
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
> Being involved in the development of SKOS and always eager to 
> find out use cases, I'm curious to know which kind of 
> application (if any) people here envision for SKOS in the 
> IVOA framework. I imagine it would be relevant e.g. to have a 
> SKOS expression of UCDs, but apart from the sheer interest of 
> the academic exercise, do you think it would fit e.g. in the 
> "feasability study" defined at 
> http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/ResourceDiscovery?
> 
> Given the mitigated success (to say the least) of my 
> interventions in last June exchanges about ontologies in 
> IVOA, I'm very reluctant to push any specific suggestions 
> here :)) But actually SKOS certainly seems to me a better 
> candidate than OWL to push Semantic Web languages into IVOA 
> framework, and if there is any further interest in it, I 
> would be happy to help with any effort in this direction.
> 
> Please feel free to jump in the SKOS forum. Archives at 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-esw-thes/
> to bring any relevant feedback about usability, or lack of 
> usability of SKOS, or any specific requirments.
> 
> Thanks for your interest
> 
> Bernard
> 
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> Bernard Vatant
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> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : owner-semantics at eso.org [mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org]De la 
> > part de Tony Linde Envoye : vendredi 21 octobre 2005 10:21 A : 
> > Semantics Objet : SKOS
> >
> >
> > Some info about SKOS, 'a model for expressing knowledge 
> organization systems
> > in a machine-understandable way, within the framework of 
> the Semantic Web.'
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
> > http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/06/22/skos.html
> >
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> > Tony Linde
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> > Fax:    +44 (0)116 252 3311    Email:  Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk
> > Post:   Department of Physics & Astronomy,
> >         University of Leicester
> >         Leicester, UK   LE1 7RH
> > Web:    http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~ael
> >
> > Project Manager, EuroVO VOTech   http://eurovotech.org
> > Programme Manager, AstroGrid     http://www.astrogrid.org
> >
> 
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