SKOS

[Bernard Vatant]

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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