Re: Call for Use Cases: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)

Hi Antoine,

Can you also send this to:

ecoterm@npogroups.org
DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
ontogenesis@mail.ontonet.org

Thanks,

Alistair.

Antoine Isaac wrote:
> 
> [Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this mail to anyone 
> interested.]
> 
> W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
> 
> Call for Use Cases: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)
> 
> Are you currently using SKOS, or considering using SKOS in the near 
> future? If so, please tell us more by filling in the questionnaire below 
> and sending it back to us or to public-swd-wg@w3.org, preferably before 
> January 14th, 2007.
> The information you provide will be influential in guiding the further 
> development of SKOS towards W3C Recommendation status.
> 
> We understand that your time is precious, so please don't feel you have 
> to answer every question. However, the more information you can provide, 
> the easier it will be for the Working Group to understand your 
> requirements. Questions marked with an asterix (*) are more important. 
> And, of course, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any 
> trouble answering our questions. A FAQ page will be maintained on 
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/UCFAQ, and a description example is 
> available at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/ManuscriptsCase.
> 
> We are particularly interested in use cases describing the use of 
> controlled structured vocabularies in distributed, metadata-driven 
> applications. This includes the use of thesauri, classification schemes, 
> subject heading systems and taxonomies to facilitate discovery and 
> retrieval of information. This also includes situations where two or 
> more vocabularies must be "mapped" or "linked" in order to provide 
> applications using heterogeneous metadata from different sources.
> 
> However, we're not ruling anything out at this stage, and the Working 
> Group will carefully consider all submissions we receive.
> 
> On behalf of the Working Group, thanks in advance for your time,
> 
> Antoine Isaac (aisaac@few.vu.nl), Jon Phipps (jphipps@madcreek.com) and 
> Daniel Rubin (dlrubin@stanford.edu)
> 
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> 
> 
> Questions marked with an asterix (*) are more important.
> 
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> Section 0. Contact and confidentiality
> ================================================================
> 
> Contact e-mail:
> 
> Do you mind your use case being made public on the working group website 
> and documents?
> 
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> Section 1. Application
> ================================================================
> 
> In this section we ask you to provide some information about the 
> application for which the vocabulary(ies) and or vocabulary mappings are 
> being used.
> 
> Please note:
> -- If your use case does not involve any specific application, but 
> consists rather in the description of a specific vocabulary, skip 
> straight to Section 2.
> -- If your application makes use of links between different 
> vocabularies, do not forget to fill in Section 3!
> 
> 1.1. What is the title of the application?
> 1.2. What is the general purpose of the application?
>      What services does it provide to the end-user?
> 
> *1.3. Provide some examples of the functionality of the application. Try 
> to illustrate all of the functionalities in which the vocabulary(ies) 
> and/or vocabulary mappings are involved.
> 
> 1.4. What is the architecture of the application?
>      What are the main components?
>      Are the components and/or the data distributed across a network, or 
> across the Web?
> 
> 1.5. Briefly describe any special strategy involved in the processing of 
> user actions, e.g. query expansion using the vocabulary structure.
> 
> 1.6. Are the functionalities associated with the controlled 
> vocabulary(ies) integrated in any way with functionalities provided by 
> other means? (For example, search and browse using a structured 
> vocabulary might be integrated with free-text searching and/or some sort 
> of social bookmarking or recommender system.)
> 
> 1.7. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.
> 
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> Section 2. Vocabulary(ies)
> ================================================================
> 
> In this section we ask you to provide some information about the 
> vocabulary or vocabularies you would like to be able to represent using 
> SKOS.
> 
> Please note:
> -- If you have multiple vocabularies to describe, you may repeat this 
> section for each one individually or you may provide a single 
> description that encompasses all of your vocabularies.
> -- If your use case describes a generic application of one or more 
> vocabularies and/or vocabulary mappings, you may skip this section.
> -- If your vocabulary case contains cross-vocabulary links (between the 
> vocabularies you presented or to external vocabularies), please fill in 
> section 3!
> 
> 2.1. What is the title of the vocabulary? If you're describing multiple 
> vocabularies, please provide as many titles as you can.
> 
> 2.2. Briefly describe the general characteristics of the vocabulary, 
> e.g. scope, size...
> 
> 2.3. In which language(s) is the vocabulary provided?
>      In the case of partial translations, how complete are these?
> 
> *2.4. Please provide below some extracts from the vocabulary. Use the 
> layout or presentation format that you would normally provide for the 
> users of the vocabulary. Please ensure that the extracts you provide 
> illustrate all of the features of the vocabulary.
> 
> 2.5. Describe the structure of the vocabulary.
>      What are the main building blocks?
>      What types of relationship are used? If you can, provide examples 
> by referring to the extracts given in paragraph 2.4.
> 
> 2.6. Is a machine-readable representation of the vocabulary already 
> available (e.g. as an XML document)? If so, we would be grateful if you 
> could provide some example data or point us to a hyperlink.
> 
> 2.7. Are any software applications used to create and/or maintain the 
> vocabulary?
>      Are there any features which these software applications currently 
> lack which are required by your use case?
> 
> 2.8. If a database application is used to store and/or manage the 
> vocabulary, how is the database structured? Illustration by means of 
> some table sample is welcome.
> 
> 2.9. Were any published standards, textbooks or written guidelines 
> followed during the design and construction of the vocabulary?
>      Did you decide to diverge from their recommendations in any way, 
> and if so, how and why?
> 
> 2.10. How are changes to the vocabulary managed?
> 
> 2.11. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.
> 
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> Section 3. Vocabulary Mappings
> ================================================================
> 
> In this section we ask you to provide some information about the 
> mappings or links between vocabularies you would like to be able to 
> represent using SKOS.
> 
> Please note:
> -- If your use case does not involve vocabulary mappings or links, you 
> may skip this section!
> 
> 3.1. Which vocabularies are you linking/mapping from/to?
> 
> *3.2. Please provide below some extracts from the mappings or links 
> between the vocabularies. Use the layout or presentation format that you 
> would normally provide for the users of the mappings. Please ensure that 
> the examples you provide illustrate all of the different types of 
> mapping or link.
> 
> 3.3. Describe the different types of mapping used, with reference to the 
> examples given in paragraph 3.2.
> 
> 3.4. Any additional information, references and/or hyperlinks.
> 
> 

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