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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei edited this page Apr 2, 2021 · 1 revision

SKOS is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. part of the Semantic Web family of standards built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication and use of such vocabularies as linked data. [...] built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication and use of such vocabularies as linked data.

A variety of European national libraries (e.g. France, Germany, Spain, Finland) are promoting the use of RDF SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), see https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ and https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/SKOS/Datasets Next to RDF, SKOS is also available as OWL data model. More on LOD in libraries https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/32325353.pdf

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