SKOS
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Alternative Label: Simple Knowledge Organization System
Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems SKOS is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication of controlled structured vocabularies for the Semantic Web. SKOS is currently developed within the W3C framework. (Source: Wikipedia )
PoolParty is fully compatible with the latest version of SKOS and can import and export all kind of serialisations of SKOS files. Thus, PoolParty is one of the first Thesaurus Management Systems on the market with a clear focus on the Semantic Web.
Broader: thesaurus specification, semantic web specification
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