- From: Osma Suominen <osma.suominen@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:14:38 +0300
- To: "public-esw-thes@w3.org" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi all, We are pleased to announce Skosmos 0.4, a tool for publishing SKOS vocabularies for both human and machine consumption. Skosmos is an open source web-based SKOS browser being developed at the National Library of Finland. It can be used by e.g. libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto.fi is built using Skosmos, which was formerly known as ONKI Light. Finto is used by indexers at the National Library and other libraries, as well as other organizations including the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and many museums. It is also used to support vocabulary development processes. Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has been developed by analysing the results of repeated usability tests. A developer-friendly REST API is also available providing RDF/XML, Turtle or JSON-LD serializations and Linked Data access for utilizing vocabularies in other applications such as annotation systems. Skosmos relies on a SPARQL endpoint as its back-end and is written mainly in PHP. The main benefits of using a SPARQL endpoint is that the data provided by the service is always up to date. This allows fast update cycles in vocabulary development. The source code is available under the MIT license. Highlights of this release: (since ONKI Light 0.3) * new look (designed by Hahmo Design, a simplified version of the Finto.fi design) * also works reasonably well on mobile devices * improved search functionality * redesigned search results page (with icons etc) * ability to limit search to a set of vocabularies * easier install and customization * dynamic i18n configuration, e.g. ability to set available UI languages in config.inc and easier translation to new languages * ability to set custom CSS, custom boxes on front page and custom about page The software is developed on Github: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos Version 0.4 can be found on the Releases page: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases Documentation about installation, configuration and upgrading is available in the wiki: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/wiki Best regards, Osma Suominen -- Osma Suominen D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist National Library of Finland P.O. Box 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23) 00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Tel. +358 50 3199529 osma.suominen@helsinki.fi http://www.nationallibrary.fi
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