ANN: ONKI Light 0.1, a SKOS vocabulary publishing tool

We are pleased to announce the first public release of ONKI Light - 
version 0.1.

ONKI Light is a tool for publishing SKOS vocabularies as services on the 
Web for human browsing as well as machine access via APIs. The tool 
provides functionalities such as term search, hierarchy visualization 
and alphabetical indexes. The user interface is multilingual, currently 
supporting Finnish, Swedish and English.

Architecturally ONKI Light is a user interface and machine API layer on 
top of a SPARQL endpoint. Currently Jena Fuseki with jena-text is the 
preferred store, but any SPARQL 1.1 compliant endpoint may be used. A 
single instance of ONKI Light can host multiple vocabularies, which can 
reside on different SPARQL endpoints. In addition to the web interface, 
the tool provides a REST-style API that serves JSON-LD data, and Linked 
Data access.

ONKI Light was originally conceived within the FinnONTO and Linked Data 
Finland projects at the Semantic Computing Research Group at Aalto 
University. Since this spring, development has moved to the National 
Library of Finland, where a national service for providing controlled 
vocabularies for both human and machine access is currently being set 
up. The production system will be based on ONKI Light and is scheduled 
to go online in the beginning of January 2014. A pre-production system 
is already online at a temporary URL [1].

ONKI Light is implemented using PHP, using libraries such as Twig, 
jQuery, jsTree and EasyRdf. The code is open source under the MIT 
license. All development happens openly at the Google Code project pages 
[2], where you can also find an issue tracker and documentation in the 
wiki. Any comments, suggestions or issue reports are very welcome!

Best regards,
Osma Suominen

[1] http://kansalliskirjasto.onki.fi
[2] http://code.google.com/p/onki-light/

-- 
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

Received on Wednesday, 16 October 2013 13:01:19 UTC