Re: SKOS Implementation: Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)

Thanks Steve

We are using the SKOS issue tracker to manage implementation  
experience, and this has been logged in the SKOS Issue tracker as  
[ISSUE-204] and [ISSUE-205].

	Sean

On 22 Apr 2009, at 02:13, Sunter, Steve wrote:

> SKOS VOCABULARY IMPLEMENTATION
> Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)
>
> The Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) provides a controlled  
> vocabulary of terms used in Australian and New Zealand schools. It  
> encompasses all subject areas as well as terms describing  
> educational and administrative processes. The thesaurus links non- 
> preferred terms to curriculum terms. It also relates terms in a  
> browsable structure.
>
> Project website: http://scot.curriculum.edu.au
> Size: Over 10 000 terms
> Established: 2002
>
> Publisher:  Curriculum Corporation, Melbourne, Australia
>
> Contacts: Steve Sunter & Les Kneebone scot@curriculum.edu.au
>
>
> SKOS constructs used:
>     Concept
>     topConceptOf
>
>     prefLabel
>     altLabel
>     hiddenLabel
>
>     changeNote
>     historyNote
>
>     broader
>     narrower
>     related
>
> Language: English
> [Currently testing multilingual support]
>
> All concepts are displayed in sentence case.  For example:
> ·         Frill necked lizards
> ·         After-school care
> ·         Business and enterprise
>
> Plan to later map between vocabularies.
>
> Entire SKOS file (RDF/XML) can be downloaded in ..zip format (227K)
> [Publicly available – requires registration]
>
>
> WEB SERVICE
> Machine-centred Web service including test facility for human use.
> Uses SOAP protocol. Can query data by identifier, concept labels,  
> top concept or date range.
> Default data output format is SKOS RDF/XML.
>
> http://scotws.curriculum.edu.au:8080/ScotWs/
> [Publicly available – requires registration]
>
> SOFTWARE – Cataloguing tool
> Human-centred search tool. Executes user queries via SKOS Web  
> service. Read only.
> http://scot.curriculum.edu.au
> [Publicly available – requires registration]
>

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Sean Bechhofer
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer

Received on Monday, 27 April 2009 09:54:06 UTC