Paper Info
Title
Extending the simple knowledge organization system for concept management in vocabulary development applications
Abstract
In this article, we describe the development of an extension to the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to accommodate the needs of vocabulary development applications (VDA) managing metadata schemes and requiring close tracking of change to both those schemes and their member concepts. We take a neopragmatic epistemic stance in asserting the need for an entity in SKOS modeling to mediate between the abstract concept and the concrete scheme. While the SKOS model sufficiently describes entities for modeling the current state of a scheme in support of indexing and search on the Semantic Web, it lacks the expressive power to serve the needs of VDA needing to maintain scheme historical continuity. We demonstrate preliminarily that conceptualizations drawn from empirical work in modeling entities in the bibliographic universe, such as works, texts, and exemplars, can provide the basis for SKOS extension in ways that support more rigorous demands of capturing concept evolution in VDA. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1002/asi.v59:1
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
skos,simple knowledge organization system,metadata
Information system,Data mining,Metadata,Information management,Information retrieval,Computer science,Semantic Web,Search engine indexing,Simple Knowledge Organization System,Vocabulary development,Concept evolution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
1
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
1.33
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joseph T. Tennis110319.21
Stuart A. Sutton224638.22