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Knowledge organisation systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information structuring and access. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group aims at providing a model for representing such vocabularies on the Semantic Web: SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System).

Alex mentioned that may be some confusion between foaf:Person and sioc:User - I hope that this picture showing the alignments between SIOC, FOAF and SKOS will help to clarify that a foaf:Person can own many sioc:User profiles (via the foaf:holdsOnlineAccount relationship). I have also included some connections from SIOC to the SKOS ontology

Strictly speaking, this would be a 4th way of organising stuff, somewhere between a taxonomy (categorized) and searchable (indexed). It’s not a taxonomy because one item can have multiple free-text tags, and it’s not straightforward indexing, because it is information ‘outside’ the item (meta-information), and not part of it.

On peut lire beaucoup de choses contradictoires sur les carnets Web qui touchent aux tags (étiquettes), aux taxonomies, au Web sémantique. Dépendant du camp dans lequel on se trouve, les opinions diffèrent. Une mythologie se développent petit à petit des deux côtés.

binding RDF and tags with SKOS

Image database

how to use skos for your own weblog

A new attribute in XHTML 2.0 will help to really create good microcontent

flickr is used to describe things which are related to Flickr at http://flickr.com/ an online sharing photographs service.