Paper Info
Title
ONKI SKOS Server for Publishing and Utilizing SKOS Vocabularies and Ontologies as Services
Abstract
Vocabularies are the building blocks of the Semantic Web providing shared terminological resources for content indexing, information retrieval, data exchange, and content integration. Most semantic web applications in practical use are based on lightweight ontologies and, more recently, on the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) data model being standardized by W3C. Easy and cost-efficient publication, integration, and utilization methods of vocabulary services are therefore highly important for the proliferation of the Semantic Web. This paper presents the ONKI SKOS Server for these tasks. Using ONKI SKOS, a SKOS vocabulary or a lightweight ontology can be published on the web as ready-to-use services in a matter of minutes. The services include not only a browser for human usage, but also Web Service and AJAX interfaces for concept finding, selecting and transporting resources from the ONKI SKOS Server to connected systems. Code generation services for AJAX and Web Service APIs are provided automatically, too. ONKI SKOS services are also used for semantic query expansion in information retrieval tasks. The idea of publishing ontologies as services is analogous to Google Maps. In our case, however, vocabulary services are provided and mashed-up in applications. ONKI SKOS was published in the beginning of 2008 and is to our knowledge the first generic SKOS server of its kind. The system has been used to publish and utilize some 60 vocabularies and ontologies in the National Finnish Ontology Service ONKI www.yso.fi.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02121-3_56
ESWC
Keywords
Field
DocType
utilizing skos vocabularies,vocabulary service,generic skos server,onki skos server,web service,skos vocabulary,onki skos service,web service apis,lightweight ontology,onki skos,semantic web,data model,query expansion,data exchange,simple knowledge organization system,cost efficiency,information retrieval,indexation,code generation
Ontology (information science),Lightweight ontology,Ontology,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Semantic Web,Ajax,Simple Knowledge Organization System,Web service
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5554
0302-9743
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.11
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jouni Tuominen117827.45
Matias Frosterus2547.28
Kim Viljanen330626.50
Eero Hyvönen4843103.43