Description: |
SKOS stands for Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems. SKOS-Core is intended as a complement to OWL. It does provide a basic framework for building concept schemes, but it does not carry the strictly defined semantics of OWL. Thus it is ideal for representing those types of KOS, such as thesauri, that cannot be mapped directly to an OWL ontology. SKOS is also easier to use, and harder to misuse than OWL, providing an ideal entry point for those wishing to use the Semantic Web for knowledge organisation.
SKOS-Core also provides a framework for linking concepts to the words and phrases that are normally used by people to refer to them. This valuable information, once captured, can be used to support a number of tasks, such as automated classification of web documents, and automated multilingual translation of glossaries. |
