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Below are links to a selection of published material on or relating to the development and use of SKOS.
Note: many documents below were created before the latest SKOS recommendation was issued. There are thus some discrepancies between the model presented in these documents (especially the oldest ones) and the official version presented in the most recent technical reports.
Tutorials
- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) - Dublin Core 2011 tutorial, Antoine Isaac, 2011-9-21 ::
[presentation]
Slides for a two-hours tutorial at the Dublin Core 2011 conference, fully compliant with the 2009 version of SKOS. Introduces the various features of SKOS, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. Presents how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Discusses available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS.
- The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment, Alistair Miles, 2008-07-21 :: [presentation]
Presentation at the ISKO UK event "Sharing vocabularies on the web via SKOS". Presents the main motivations and rationales behind the SKOS standard, with nice application examples. Featuring a "SKOS in five minutes" introduction!
- On practical aspects of enhancing semantic interoperability using SKOS and KOS alignment, Antoine Isaac, 2008-07-21 :: [presentation]
A useful complement to the slides above, presenting at the same ISKO UK workshop the SKOS model in more (practical) details, and how using SKOS enhances the interoperability of conceptual vocabularies.
General Presentations
- Introduction to SKOS - webcast, Bob DuCharme, SemTech conference, 2011-10 ::
[webcast] [slides]
A general overview of SKOS for the business-oriented Semantic Technology conference.
- SKOS: Past, Present and Future, Sean Bechhofer, 2010-06-03 :: [presentation, Sean on video!]
A keynote talk at the Extended Semantic Web Conference, giving a thorough overview of the features of SKOS and its design process, SKOS applications...
- 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.
- 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.
(History) Introductory Papers
- Simple Knowledge Organization 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 Organization 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.
Technical Papers — Experience Reports
- Linked Data for Fighting Global Hunger:Experiences in setting standards for Agricultural Information Management , Tom Baker, Johannes Kaizer, Linking Enterprise Data (David Wood, ed.), 2010 ::
[paper]
A complete report on the various experiments carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN with the AGROVOC thesaurus, between 2000 and 2010.
- Converting and Integrating Vocabularies for the Semantic Web, Mark van Assem, 2010 ::
[paper]
A PhD thesis on converting existing knowledge organization systems to Semantic Web languages (SKOS, OWL), discussing in length the various options available and their associated tradeoffs.
- Bringing the "Thesaurus for Economics" on to the Web of Linked Data, Joachim Neubert, WWW2009 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web ::
[paper]
Report on the setting up of the SKOS representation and linked data service of the STW Thesaurus for Economics.
- LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data, Ed Summers, Antoine Isaac, Clay Redding, Dan Krech, 2008-09 :: [paper] [also in Chinese]
A paper for the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications reporting on the conversion of the Library of Congress Subject Headings to SKOS and the publication of this vocabulary as linked data, prior to the creation of the id.loc.gov service.
- 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.
