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    A Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a widely-used data model for organizing and sharing knowledge and information in a structured and standardized way. This presentation covers some of the basic concepts and elements of SKOS, such as concepts, labels, relations, and collections, and provides examples of how these can be used to represent and organize different types of knowledge.

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    A Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a widely-used data model for organizing and sharing knowledge and information in a structured and standardized way. This presentation covers some of the basic concepts and elements of SKOS, such as concepts, labels, relations, and collections, and provides examples of how these can be used to represent and organize different types of knowledge.

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    SKOS in 10 Points

    Karen Tinajero-Vazquez
    1. SKOS SIMPLIFIES ALL KNOWLEDGE
    SKOS takes all the knowledge organization systems (such as
    folksonomies and taxonomies) and groups them together to make
    it easier to find and organize information on the internet.

    CONTROLLED
    FOLKSONOMY TAXONOMY
    VOCABULARY

    THESAURUS ONTOLOGY

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    2. SKOS IS BASED ON THE RDF
    As an application of the Resource Description Framework
    (RDF), SKOS allows concepts to be created and published on
    the internet, linked with data on the Web and integrated into
    other concept schemes.

    (In RDF, a resource can be anything that can be identified by a


    Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), such as a web page, a
    person, a place, or a concept.)

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    3. SKOS IS A BRIDGE
    SKOS helps you understand how terms are connected and how they relate to other
    concepts. It can bridge something as messy and complicated as ontologies with social
    tagging.

    Image Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-018-0032-6


    Image Source: https://en.ryte.com/wiki/Social_Tagging
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    CONCEPTS
    4. SKOS USES FIVE
    LABLES CORE ELEMENTS
    CONCEPTS are identified with URIs, LABELED
    DOCUMENTATION in one or more natural languages,
    DOCUMENTED with helpful human-readable
    notes, SEMANTICALLY related to each other,
    and aggregated into CONCEPT SCHEMES.
    SEMANTIC RELATIONS

    CONCEPT SCHEMES

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    5. CONCEPTS ARE THE
    FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF SKOS
    Machines are not that smart…unless we tell them what something
    means. Concepts can be anything like a physical object (a car) or
    an abstract idea (justice).

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    6. LABELS RELATE SIMILAR IDEAS
    Labels are used to further describe concepts

    CAR AUTOMOBILE
    VEHICLE
    AUTOMOTIVE
    ex:car rdf:type skos:Concept;
    skos:prefLabel “car”@en;
    skos:altLabel “automobile”@en;

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    7. WE STILL NEED HUMAN-
    READABLE DOCUMENTATION
    Documentation provides additional information
    about the definition, scope, or usage of a concept.
    It’s helpful for people who are unfamiliar with the
    concept.

    Image Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/#secdocumentation

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    8. SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
    Semantic relations show VOITURE
    how concepts are related
    to each other. It's like
    creating a web of
    connections between
    SPORTS
    different ideas, so that TRUCKS CARS CARS
    people can understand
    how they are related and
    how they fit together.
    VEHICLES

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    9. CONCEPTS HAVE BUCKETS
    Concept schemes in SKOS are like
    buckets that hold and organize related
    concepts.

    A concept scheme can include one or


    more concepts, and can be organized in
    a hierarchy or network using semantic
    relationships.

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    10. SKOS “IS A FINISHED PRODUCT”

    There has been no working group assigned to review or update SKOS since
    the recommendation by the W3C was published.
    SKOS has been successful, with thousands of published vocabularies and
    thesauri making use of it and a healthy collection of tools for creating,
    validating, and viewing or using it.

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