Announcment text for Request for Comments: SKOS Primer: W3C Working Draft 21 February 2008

Of course comments should not concern the weird hyperlinks my mail 
editor has kept from Alistair's initial text ;-)

Antoine

>
> Hi all,
>
> I've adapted the text of Alistair's call for comments on the SKOS 
> reference for the SKOS Primer.
> If you any comment, please say so. I'd like to circulate this mail 
> around next week!
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
> =======================
>
> W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
>
> We are pleased to announce the publication of the SKOS Primer as a W3C 
> First Public Working Draft:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080221/ 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080125/>
>
> This is a substantial update to and replacement for the previous SKOS 
> Core Guide W3C Working Draft dated 2 November 2005 [1]. It is a 
> companion document to the SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System 
> Reference W3C Working Draft dated 25 January 2008 [2].
>
> We ask at this stage feedback and reviews on this draft guide. All 
> comments are welcome and may be sent to public-swd-wg@w3.org; please 
> include the text "SKOS comment in the subject line. Note especially 
> that there are a number of open issues, which are indicated in the 
> document.
>
> Please forward this announcement to any other groups which may be 
> interested.
>
> Abstract:
> """
> SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organization System — provides a model for 
> expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as 
> thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 
> folksonomies, and other types of controlled vocabulary. As an 
> application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) SKOS
> allows concepts to be documented, linked and merged with other data, 
> while still being composed, integrated and published on the World Wide 
> Web.
>
> This document is an implementors guide for those who would like to 
> represent their concept scheme using SKOS.
>
> In basic SKOS, conceptual resources (concepts) can be identified using 
> URIs, labelled with strings in one or more natural languages, 
> documented with various types of notes, semantically related to each 
> other in informal hierarchies and association networks, and aggregated 
> into distinct concept schemes.
>
> In advanced SKOS, conceptual resources can be mapped to conceptual 
> resources in other schemes and grouped into labelled or ordered 
> collections. Concept labels can also be related to each other. 
> Finally, the SKOS vocabulary itself can be extended to suit the needs 
> of particular communities of practice.
>
> This document is a companion to the SKOS Reference, which gives the 
> normative reference on SKOS.
> """
>
> For more information on SKOS, the Semantic Web Deployment Working 
> Group, or the W3C Semantic Web Activity, please see the following links:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Antoine
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080125/
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>
>
>

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