In this blog post, the author describes the differences between SKOS and SKOS-XL. Includes a brief example (in Turtle syntax) of a SKOS-XL representation with extra properties adding metadata to some of the labels describing entities in a dataset. He explains that this would not be possible in regular SKOS, because there labels are considered strings (or, sometimes, "lexical entities") and are not allowed to posses such properties of their own.
URL: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2011/02/what-skos-xl-adds-to-skos.html
Keywords: Metadata, Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), SKOS-XL
Author: DuCharme, Bob
Date created: 2011-02-08 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P10M
- Knows Simple Knowledge Organization System, or SKOS (2009), an RDF vocabulary for expressing concepts that are labeled in natural languages, organized into informal hierarchies, and aggregated into co
- Knows SKOS eXtension for Labels, or SKOS-XL (2009), a small set of additional properties for describing and linking lexical labels as instances of the class Label.