SKOS primer

[Tony Linde]

At: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080221/
 
>From Robin Cover:
 
W3C Publishes SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer
Antoine Isaac and Ed Summers (eds), W3C Technical Report
 
Members of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group have published
the First Public Working Draft for the "SKOS Simple Knowledge
Organization System Primer." SKOS provides a model for expressing the
basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri,
classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies,
and other types of controlled vocabulary. SKOS has been designed to
provide a low-cost migration path for porting existing organization
systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a light weight, intuitive
conceptual modeling language for developing and sharing new KOSs. It
can be used on its own, or in combination with more formal languages like
the Web Ontology Language (OWL). SKOS can also be seen as a bridging
technology, providing the missing link between the rigorous logical
formalism of ontology languages such as OWL and the chaotic, informal
and weakly-structured world of social approaches to information management,
as exemplified by social tagging applications. In the library and
information sciences, a long and distinguished heritage is devoted to
developing tools for organizing large collections of objects such as
books or museum artifacts. These tools are known generally as "knowledge
organization systems" (KOS) or sometimes "controlled structured
vocabularies", although no widely agreed definitions exist for these
terms. The situation is complicated because several similar yet distinct
traditions have emerged over time, each supported by a distinct community
of practice and set of agreed standards. Different families of knowledge
organization systems, including "thesauri", "classification schemes",
"subject heading systems", and "taxonomies" are widely recognized and
applied in both modern and traditional information systems. In practice
it can be hard to draw an absolute distinction between "thesauri" and
"classification schemes" or "taxonomies." SKOS aims to provide a bridge
between different communities of practice within the library and
information sciences involved in the design and application of knowledge
organization systems. In addition, SKOS aims to provide a bridge between
these communities and the Semantic Web, by transferring existing models
of knowledge organization to the Semantic Web technology context, and
by providing a low-cost migration path for porting existing knowledge
organization systems to RDF.
 
 
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