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Application Patterns
The SKOS Example


  • “Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems”
  • Framework for building, e.g., thesauri, glossaries, …
    • the document refers to “concept schemes”
    • simpler than OWL
    • does not have the same expressive power
    • no strictly defined semantics
    • simpler to build SKOS applications
  • Still a draft
    • http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/thes/1.0/guide/
    • not in the “regular” W3C recommendation track

Ivan Herman, W3C 107 (143)