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Below are links to a selection of published material on or relating to the development and use of SKOS.
Tutorials
- SKOS Tutorial for the Catch Project, Mark van Assem and Antoine Isaac, 2005-11-25 :: [presentation]
A tutorial for the "Catch" project, covering basic uses of SKOS, with some examples and motivation from the cultural heritage domain.
- SKOS Core Tutorial for Dublin Core 2005, Alistair Miles, 2005-09-15 :: [presentation]
A 90 minute tutorial for the 2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, covering SKOS Core status, development, features, extensions, HTTP publication, relationship to OWL and open issues.
Introductory Papers
- Simple Knowledge Organisation and the Semantic Web, Alistair Miles, 2005-10 :: [presentation] [short paper]
A presentation delivered as the Bliss Classification's Annual Lecture 2005, and a short paper for the Bliss Classification Association's annual bulletin, to accompany the lecture.
- SKOS Core: Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web, Alistair Miles, Brian Matthews and Michael Wilson, 2005-09-12 :: [presentation] [full paper]
An introduction to SKOS Core for the 2005 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, covering SKOS Core main features, status and development.
- SKOS: A language to describe simple knowledge structures for the web, Alistair Miles, Brian Matthews, Dave Beckett, Dan Brickley, Michael Wilson and Nikki Rogers, 2005-05 :: [full paper]
An introduction to SKOS for the 2005 XTech Conference.
Technical Papers
- Retrieval and the Semantic Web, incorporating a Theory of Retrieval Using Structured Vocabularies, Alistair Miles, 2006-09 :: [links to full paper and all chapters]
A dissertation on the use of structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Intended as a theoretical foundation for the development of SKOS.
- Encoding Library of Congress Subject Headings in SKOS: Authority Control for the Semantic Web, Corey A. Harper, 2006-09 :: [presentation] [paper]
A short paper for the 2006 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, exploring the use of XSLT stylesheets to translate LCSH Authority Records from MARC/XML or MADS XML formats into RDF documents according to the SKOS project's Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web.
- SKOS: Requirements for Standardization, Alistair Miles, 2006-07 :: [presentation] [full paper]
A full paper for the 2006 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, describing assumptions underlying the design of SKOS, and suggestions for defining formal requirements, in preparation for the planned development of SKOS towards W3C Recommendation status.
- A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS, Mark van Assem, Veronique Malaise, Alistair Miles and Guus Schreiber, 2006-06 :: [full paper] [supplementary data files & notes]
A paper for the 2006 European Semantic Web Conference, describing a stuctured methodology for the conversion of existing thesauri to a SKOS representation, with some examples (IPSV, GTAA and MeSH).
- A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies Up: The NSDL Registry Project, Diane I. Hillmann, Stuart A. Sutton, Jon Phipps and Ryan Laundry, 2006-05 :: [full paper]
A paper for the 2006 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, describing the NSDL Metadata Registry project, including challenges in the practical application of SKOS.
- A Method for Converting Thesauri to RDF/OWL, Mark van Assem, Maarten R. Menken, Guus Schreiber, Jan Wielemaker and Bob Wielinga, 2004-11 :: [full paper] [supplementary data files & notes]
A paper for the 2004 International Semantic Web Conference, describing a general methodology for the conversion of existing thesauri to an RDF/OWL representation.
Presentations
- Towards the Management of Meaning, Alistair Miles, 2006-12 :: [presentation]
A presentation delivered to the Oxfordshire Semantic Web Interest Group, giving a brief overview of planned SWDWG work, and highlighting economic and practical challenges in the application of controlled structured vocabularies.
- SKOS: Something Kool, Original and Sexy, Alistair Miles, 2006-10 :: [presentation]
A virtual talk at the Metadata Research Centre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the current status and future of SKOS.
- SKOS Update for Ecoterm 2006, Alistair Miles, 2006-05 :: [presentation]
A presentation delivered to the 3rd Ecoterm Meeting, giving an update an current status for SKOS, and discussion issues relating to future development.
- Taxonomies and the Semantic Web, Alistair Miles, 2006-02 :: [presentation]
A presentation delivered to the CISTRANA workshop on "Portals for information dissemination and taxonomies for classification", on the application of Semantic Web technologies to business taxonomies and to web portals.
- SKOS and OWL: Maximising Utility, Minimising Cost, Alistair Miles, 2005-12 :: [presentation]
A presentation delivered to an XMLUK meeting on "Ontologies and XML", on using SKOS and OWL to explore the tradeoffs between the benefits of precise retrieval and the costs of creating and curating ontologies.
- SKOS Update for NKOS 2005, Alistair Miles, 2005-09 :: [presentation]
A short presentation for the 4th European NKOS Workshop, reviewing a number of technical challenges for SKOS, including mapping, extensibility, multilinguality, change management, and service APIs.
