The Semantic Puzzle

Andreas Blumauer

Extended Thesaurus Management with SKOS Collections and SPARQL Lists

The latest release of PoolParty Thesaurus Server comes with some interesting new features: Besides an improved user dialogue for thesaurusA thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning, in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than ... alignment, dynamic lists (SPARQL lists) and SKOSSimple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to ... Collections have been introduced

SPARQL lists are lists of concepts or specific data from concepts based on pre-defined SPARQL queries. The SPARQL list framework is very flexible and makes dynamic access from third-party applications to specific lists of concepts of your thesaurus possible: it is easy to add new lists on demand, e.g. to define certain workflow tasks, or to display all concepts of a defined status for further editing.

SKOS Collections (as part of the W3CThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of ... SKOS standard) are useful where a group of concepts shares something in common, and it is convenient to group them under a common label, or where some concepts can be placed in a meaningful order. See how it works:

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