- From: Osma Suominen <osma.suominen@helsinki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:05:27 +0200
- To: "public-esw-thes@w3.org" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi all, We are pleased to announce Skosmos 1.0, a tool for publishing SKOS vocabularies for both human and machine consumption. The version number signifies that this release is considered ready for general use. 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 1.0 release brings support for all SKOS Core properties. The user interface is multilingual and available in five languages: English, Finnish, German, Norwegian (Bokmål) and Swedish. 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. Skosmos was presented at the SWIB14 conference. A recording of the talk is available, as well as the presentation slides. Video: https://speakerdeck.com/swib14/publish-your-skos-vocabulary-with-skosmos Slides: http://swib.org/swib14/slides/ylikotila_swib14_12.pdf 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. In addition to being used in Finto.fi, Skosmos is used by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN to provide a search interface to the AGROVOC multilingual agricultural thesaurus. The GACS project, which is an initiative to create a common agricultural concept sheme (also presented at SWIB14), is using Skosmos as a publication platform for thesauri and concept mappings. There are pilot installations of Skosmos also at Oslo University Library in Norway and in Germany at the Rhineland-Palatinate spatial data infrastructure initiative. The software is developed on Github: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos Version 1.0 can be found on the Releases page: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases/tag/v1.0 Documentation about installation, configuration and upgrading is available in the wiki: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/wiki Best regards, Osma Suominen Finto project team, National Library of Finland -- 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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