Another vocabulary specification tool: SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)

• Goal: represent and share classifications, glossaries, thesauri, etc, as developed in the “Print World”.

• • for example:
  • • Dewey Decimal Classification, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, ACM classification of keywords and terms…
    • US Library of Congress subject headings

• Allow for a quick port of this traditional data, combine it with other data

• No need for complex inferencing