Simple Knowledge Organization System

• Goal: representing and sharing classifications, glossaries, thesauri, etc, as developed in the “Print World”. For example:

• • Dewey Decimal Classification, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, ACM classification of keywords and terms…
  • DMOZ categories (a.k.a. Open Directory Project)

• The system must be simple to allow for a quick port of traditional data (done by non-experts in, say, Semantic Web)

• This is where SKOS comes in: define classes, properties, where those structures can be added