SkosDev/ModelClassifications

Up to now Skos usage was mainly limited to Thesauri. This page is meant to collect information about SKOS and classifications.

• 2006-08-04: SkosDev/ClassificationPubGuide - First tentative draft of how to express classification in SKOS

UDC

The Universal Decimal Classification is one of the most powerfull (but also complex) classifications. In March 1990 a Task Force on UDC System Development wrote in a recommendation:

A "standard version" of c. 60.000 subdivisions, in English, in machine readable format should be created. It should be supported by a semantic network and have a much more consistently faceted structure than at present.

See http://www.udcc.org/mrf2.htm

ClaML

ClaML (EN 14463:2007) is a simple XML application for the exchange and distribution of classification schemes. ClaML has been adopted by the WHO (World Health Org.) to distribute their family of international classifications.