SKOS: Requirements for Standardization

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Record Id	37579
Title	SKOS: Requirements for Standardization
Contributors	AJ Miles (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
Abstract	This paper poses three questions regarding the planned development of the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) towards W3C Recommendation status. Firstly, what is the fundamental purpose and therefore scope of SKOS? Secondly, which key software components depend on SKOS, and how do they interact? Thirdly, what is the wider technological and social context in which SKOS is likely to be applied and how might this influence design goals? Some tentative conclusions are drawn and in particular it is suggested that the scope of SKOS be restricted to the formal representation of controlled structured vocabularies intended for use within retrieval applications. However, the main purpose of this paper is to articulate the assumptions that have motivated the design of SKOS, so that these may be reviewed prior to a rigorous standardization initiative.
Organisation	CCLRC , ESC
Keywords	Dublin Core , Metadata , Semantic Web , KOS , SKOS , Standardisation
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Language	English (EN)

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Paper In Conference Proceedings	In International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2006), Manzanillo, Mexico, 3-6 Oct 2006, (2006).		camera-ready-paper.doc camera-ready-paper.pdf presentation.odp presentation.pdf	2006