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The point of this exercise was mainly to show how thinking of the New York Times Topics as a controlled vocabulary, that can be serialized as a file, and still present on the Web, could be useful.

a query that would return a subgraph from an entire SKOS concept scheme for any assertions involving a particular concept URI as the subject.

This ontology aims at providing a simple vocabulary for describing programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc. Its development was funded by the BBC, and is heavily grounded on previous programmes data modelling work done there. This documentation page is a first draft. All feedback on either the ontology or this page is welcomed! Feel free to email the authors mentioned aboved. The design and layout of this ontology document is based on the Music Ontology and FOAF Vocabulary specification documents, and was generated using the following hand-tuned onto_spec.pl SWI-Prolog script and HTML templates.

SKOS is a lightweight language for representing intuitive, semi-formal conceptual structures.

RDF and OWL files

The one where the FOAF Output plugin is extended to also generate a SKOS Concept Scheme.

The 'validation' is performed by a Schemarama 2 service, and the Schemarama 2 framework is highly experimental. Note also that the service uses the SKOS Core Integrity Testing and Quality Assurance tests, which are highly experimental.

This page supplements a paper that describes a method to convert thesauri to SKOS

In a topic-oriented architecture such as DITA, content is authored in small, independent units that are assembled to provide help systems, books, courses, and other deliverables. Each unit of information answers a single question for a specific purpose. That is, each topic has specific, independent subject matter -- the very reason that these units of information are called topics. For instance, one topic might describe the format of a user definition file on a Web site while another topic explains the principles of Web site security and a third topic lays out the procedure for setting up Web site logins.

I’m trying out some ideas with tagging and folksonomies. I want to represent them using SKOS. There has been some exploration of this recently by Karl Dubost and Richard Newman helped along by that maven Danny. I couldn’t change the output of any existing tagging systems so I did the next best thing and wrote my own: tinky.org

SKOS [en] (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) : SKOS est un vocabulaire pour définir des systèmes d'organisation de la connaissance : thésaurii, vocabulaires contrôlés, classifications, ethnoclassifications, cartographies conceptuelles, etc.