SKOS and OWL

• SKOS is geared towards some specific (though large) use cases, like

• • taxonomies, glossaries, …
  • annotations of complex structures

• SKOS is a based on a very simple usage of OWL

• • roughly on the rule based level
  • no complex inference possibilities

• Ideal tool to create “bridges” between the library world and the (Semantic) Web

• • eg, by providing standard “terms” (ie, their URI-s)