- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 06:19:23 -0500
- To: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Hi Emily,
Not a stupid question at all. SKOS uses the RDF data model, which has
an XML serialization (among others). For example here's some XML for
the concept Art in the Library of Congress Subject Headings:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85007461.rdf
Since it's RDF, every concept in a Thesaurus has a URL. These URLs are
used to link together each concept with its broader, narrower and
related terms...much as you link documents together with HTML. In fact
you can also express SKOS in HTML using RDFa [2]. Here's an example
from the STW Thesaurus for Economics for the concept Coin:
http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/11434-5
Anyhow, it is a lot to dive into. If you aren't scared off yet, and
want to learn more about RDF I recommend the RDF Primer [3]. After
that you could take a look at the SKOS Primer [4]. Several Thesaurus
management software tools have export as SKOS functionality; so maybe
you don't need to learn all the details necessarily.
If you have the time it would be interesting to know why you started
looking for something like SKOS. Do you have a thesaurus already and
are looking for a way to share it with other people? Or are you
looking to build a thesaurus and fishing around for options on how to
store it?
//Ed
[1] http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85007461.rdf
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck@mfah.org> wrote:
> Hi, I apologize if this sounds stupid but I was looking for an XML schema
> for a thesaurus and I happened upon SKOS. I cannot tell what it is from all
> these acronyms and talk about the semantic web. It is all very confusing.
> Is SKOS XML or something else?
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> Thank you,
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> Emily
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> Emily Nedell Tuck
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> Data Standards Manager
> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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> P.O. Box 6826, Houston, TX 77265-6826
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> 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, Texas 77005
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> (713) 353-1523
> etuck@mfah.org
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