Key choices in the design of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-49

  Baker, Thomas ^a   Bechhofer, Sean ^b   Isaac, Antoine ^c,d   Miles, Alistair ^e   Schreiber, Guus ^c   Summers, Ed ^f  

^a Dublin Core Metadata Initiative   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d National Library of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f LIBRARY OF CONGRESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabularies; Knowledge organization systems; Thesauri; Web standards

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; FORMAL EXPRESSIONS; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT; SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; WEB STANDARDS; WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUMS;

DESIGN; ONTOLOGY; THESAURI; WORLD WIDE WEB;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880332988     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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