Abstract
Many knowledge organizations and digital repositories have leveraged different software to manage their taxonomies and thesauri. However, some of them do not have enough technical knowledge or experts to create complex structure e.g., OWL. On the other side, SKOS, as a simple language for classifying the knowledge organization systems e.g., thesauri, allows data to be distributed and composed on the Web of Data in a structured way. This short paper presents an approach to expose taxonomies, classification schemes and other types of vocabularies as SKOS by developing a mapping tool. It also visualizes the output in a graphical user interface in order to explore the vocabularies along with their relationships as well.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Solomou, G., Papatheodorou, T.: The Use of SKOS Vocabularies in Digital Repositories: The DSpace Case. In: 2010 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), pp. 542–547 (2010)
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Namespace Document 30 July 2008 Edition, http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/skos.html (accessed: May 13, 2013)
Klyne, G., Carroll, J.J.: Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax. W3C Recommendation (2004)
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview, 2nd edn. , http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
Nagy, H., Pellegrini, T., Mader, C.: Exploring structural differences in thesauri for SKOS-based applications. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, New York, NY, USA, pp. 187–190 (2011)
Improve your taxonomy management using the W3C SKOS standard (May 10, 2011), http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-skostaxonomy/ (accessed: May 14, 2013)
The Linking Open Data cloud diagram, http://lod-cloud.net/ (accessed: May 14, 2013)
SPARQL endpoint - semanticweb.org, http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SPARQL_endpoint (accessed: May 14, 2013)
Jupp, S., Bechhofer, S., Stevens, R.: SKOS with OWL: Don’t be Full-ish! In: Proceedings of the Fifth OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, Collocated with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-27. CEUR-WS.org (2008), https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:2h72 (accessed: May 14, 2013)
Simple Knowledge Organization System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System (accessed: May 19, 2013)
Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), http://www.seco.tkk.fi/ (accessed: August 15, 2013)
Hive project, http://hive.apache.org/ (accessed: August 15, 2013)
The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ (accessed: August 15, 2013)
Keith, M., Binding, C., Tudhope, D.: A STAR is born: some emerging Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources. In: Proceedings Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Budapest, Hungary (2008)
TemaTres Controlled Vocabulary server, http://www.vocabularyserver.com/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
skoseditor - SKOSEd - Thesaurus editor for the Semantic Web - Google Project Hosting, http://code.google.com/p/skoseditor/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System, http://protege.stanford.edu/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
ThManager - KOS editor, http://thmanager.sourceforge.net/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
PoolParty Semantic Information Management, http://www.poolparty.biz/ (accessed: May 19, 2013)
Zoghlami, K., Kerherve, B., Gerbe, O.: Using a SKOS Engine to Create, Share and Transfer Terminology Data Sets. In: 2011 Seventh International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), pp. 46–53 (2011)
Bizer, C.: D2RQ - treating non-RDF databases as virtual RDF graphs. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2004 (2004)
moritz.stefaner.eu - Relation browser, http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/relation-browser/ (accessed: May 05, 2013)
Organic.Edunet Metadata Application Profile - Organic.Edunet, http://wiki.organic-edunet.eu/index.php/Organic.Edunet_Metadata_Application_Profile (accessed: May 12, 2013)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Rajabi, E., Sicilia, MA., Sánchez-Alonso, S. (2013). A Simple Approach towards SKOSification of Digital Repositories. In: Garoufallou, E., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 390. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03437-9_8
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-03436-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-03437-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)