Re: Request for Implementation Input: SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System

Matthew

Thanks for your input. We are using the SKOS issue tracker to manage  
implementation
experience, and this has been logged in the SKOS Issue tracker as
[ISSUE-222].

	Sean

On 8 Apr 2009, at 14:21, Antoine Isaac wrote:

> Dear Matthew,
>
> Thank you very much!
> I cc the mail to the list, so that the group as a whole can be  
> informed.
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
>> Hello Antoine
>> I have developed a very early version of a Social Identity Schema  
>> Mapping (SISM) which I have made available on the web. Here are  
>> the details:
>> == Vocabulary Implementations ==
>> If you are notifying us of one or more vocabularies or vocabulary
>> mappings as an implementation, please provide *at least* the  
>> following
>> information:
>> * vocabulary title(s) (e.g. Library of Congress Subject Headings)
>> SISM - Social Identity Schema Mapping
>> * name of person and/or organisation responsible for the
>>  implementation
>> Matthew Rowe
>> OAK Group, Department of Computer Science, University of  
>> Sheffield, UK.
>> * a list of the SKOS constructs used (e.g. skos:Concept,
>>  skos:ConceptScheme, skos:inScheme, skos:broader, skos:prefLabel,
>>  skos:closeMatch ... etc.)
>> skos:ConceptScheme
>> skos:Concept
>> skos:prefLabel
>> skos:altLabel
>> skos:exactMatch
>> skos:related
>> skos:broader
>> skos:narrower
>> skos:inScheme
>> * URL(s) where the published SKOS data may be obtained, if the data
>>  are publicly available
>> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mrowe/ontologies/sism.rdf
>> * We would also welcome any further information you care to provide,
>> however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested
>> to know the scope and size of the vocabulary, what it is primarily
>> used for, in what languages the vocabulary is provided, any other  
>> URLs
>> describing the vocabulary or providing further information.
>> The mapping schema is intended to provide relations between  
>> available vocabularies on the web used to define identity  
>> information. There appears to be, at present, duplication of  
>> similar concepts and relations in several available vocabularies.  
>> SKOS offers an ideal format to describe the semantics of the  
>> mapping between these similar concepts. The schema is not large,  
>> as it is an early version that only maps 4 vocabularies.
>> Web site with info about the mappings including graphs:
>> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mrowe/sism.html
>> Hope this helps. Let me know if you need any other information.
>> thanks
>> On 7 Apr 2009, at 23:38, Antoine Isaac wrote:
>>> The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group is pleased to announce
>>> the publication of a Candidate Recommendation for the Simple  
>>> Knowledge
>>> Organization System (SKOS) Reference:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/
>>>
>>> A new Working Draft of the accompanying SKOS Primer has also been
>>> published:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090317/
>>>
>>> The Working Group now *calls for implementations.*
>>>
>>> We would like to hear of any vocabulary (thesaurus, classification
>>> system, subject heading system, taxonomy or other KOS) or mapping
>>> between vocabularies that has been published in the Web as
>>> machine-readable data using SKOS, and/or has been made available via
>>> programmatic services using SKOS.
>>>
>>> We would also like to hear of any software that has the  
>>> capability to
>>> read and/or write SKOS data, and/or can check whether a given SKOS
>>> dataset is consistent with the SKOS data model.
>>>
>>> If you would like to notify us of a vocabulary, vocabulary mapping,
>>> and/or software as a SKOS implementation, *please send an email to
>>> public-swd-wg@w3.org before 30 April 2009*, providing the  
>>> information
>>> described below. Please also begin the subject line with "SKOS
>>> Implementation:".
>>>
>>> == Vocabulary Implementations ==
>>>
>>> If you are notifying us of one or more vocabularies or vocabulary
>>> mappings as an implementation, please provide *at least* the  
>>> following
>>> information:
>>>
>>> * vocabulary title(s) (e.g. Library of Congress Subject Headings)
>>>
>>> * name of person and/or organisation responsible for the
>>>  implementation
>>>
>>> * a list of the SKOS constructs used (e.g. skos:Concept,
>>>  skos:ConceptScheme, skos:inScheme, skos:broader, skos:prefLabel,
>>>  skos:closeMatch ... etc.)
>>>
>>> * URL(s) where the published SKOS data may be obtained, if the data
>>>  are publicly available
>>>
>>> We would also welcome any further information you care to provide,
>>> however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested
>>> to know the scope and size of the vocabulary, what it is primarily
>>> used for, in what languages the vocabulary is provided, any other  
>>> URLs
>>> describing the vocabulary or providing further information.
>>>
>>> == Software Implementations ==
>>>
>>> If you are notifying us of software as an implementation, please
>>> provide *at least* the following information:
>>>
>>> * name of the software (e.g. SKOSEd)
>>>
>>> * name of person and/or organisation responsible for the
>>>  implementation
>>>
>>> * URLs for software home page and/or download location if publicly
>>>  downloadable
>>>
>>> * can the software read SKOS data?
>>>
>>> * can the software write SKOS data?
>>> * can the software check consistency of SKOS data with respect to
>>>  the SKOS data model?
>>>
>>> For more information on what we mean by reading, writing or checking
>>> SKOS data, see:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOSImplementationReport
>>>
>>> We would also welcome any further information you care to provide,
>>> however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested
>>> in the main purpose and functionality of the software, the  
>>> programming
>>> language and/or software frameworks used, details of the SKOS
>>> constructs which are supported, any other URLs describing the  
>>> software
>>> or providing further information.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Alistair Miles and Antoine Isaac
>>>
>>> on behalf of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
>>>
>>>
>> Matthew Rowe, MEng
>> PhD Student
>> OAK Group
>> Department of Computer Science
>> University of Sheffield
>> m.rowe@dcs.shef.ac.uk
>
>

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Sean Bechhofer
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer

Received on Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:53:54 UTC