Why SKOS should be a focal point of your linked data strategy

In this webinar, key people from the Semantic Web Company describe why controlled vocabularies based on SKOS should play a central role in a Linked Data strategy, and how SKOS can be enriched by ontologies and Linked Data to further improve semantic information management. The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) has become one of the sweet spots in the Linked Data ecosystem in recent years. Especially when Semantic Web technologies are being adapted for the requirements of enterprises or public administration, SKOS has played a central role in the creation of knowledge graphs.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfchOJV5t9I
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Ontology, Knowledge Graph, Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), Semantic Web
Author: Blumauer, Andreas
Publisher: Semantic Web Company
Date created: 2014-05-23 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P1H5M
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: expositive

Competencies

Articulates differences between the RDF abstract data model and the XML and relational models.
- Fundamentals of Resource Description Framework
  - RDF data model
    - Articulates differences between the RDF abstract data model and the XML and relational models.
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
- RDF vocabularies and application profiles
  - Designing RDF-based vocabularies
    - 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
Reuses published properties and classes where available.
- RDF vocabularies and application profiles
  - Designing RDF-based vocabularies
    - Reuses published properties and classes where available.
Understands that in a formal sense, a SKOS concept is not an RDF class but an instance and, as such, is not formally associated with a set of instances ("class extension").
- RDF vocabularies and application profiles
  - Designing RDF-based vocabularies
    - Understands that in a formal sense, a SKOS concept is not an RDF class but an instance and, as such, is not formally associated with a set of instances ("class extension").
Understands that SKOS can express a flexibly associative structure of concepts without enabling the more rigid and automatic inferences typically specified in a class-based OWL ontology.
- RDF vocabularies and application profiles
  - Designing RDF-based vocabularies
    - Understands that SKOS can express a flexibly associative structure of concepts without enabling the more rigid and automatic inferences typically specified in a class-based OWL ontology.

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Why SKOS should be a focal point of your linked data strategy