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=== Formal release (2009) ===

On August 18, 2009, [[W3C]] released the new standard that builds a bridge between the world of [[Knowledge organization system|knowledge organization systems]] – including thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and [[folksonomy|folksonomies]] – and the [[linked data]] community, bringing benefits to both. Libraries, museums, newspapers, government portals, enterprises, social networking applications, and other communities that manage large collections of books, historical artifacts, news reports, business glossaries, blog entries, and other items can now use SKOS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818/|title=SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> to leverage the power of linked data.

=== Historical view of components ===

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* OpenSKOS is a web service-based approach to publication, management and use of vocabulary data that can be mapped to SKOS. Its source code is available on GitHub. It includes [[CRUD]] like [[RESTful]] operations on SKOS concepts and a web-based editor for searching and editing concepts. It was developed by Picturae and funded by the Dutch heritage fond CATCHPlus.

* [[TemaTres]] Vocabulary Server<ref>[http://www.vocabularyserver.com TemaTres] is an open source web-based vocabulary server for managing controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and thesauruses</ref> is an open source web-based vocabulary server for managing controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and thesauruses and other formal representations of knowledge. TemaTres provides complete export of vocabularies into SKOS-core in addition to Zthes, TopicMaps, MADS, Dublin Core, VDEX, BS 8723, SiteMap, SQL and text.

* ThManager<ref>[httphttps://thmanager.sourceforge.net/ ThManager] an Open Source Tool for creating and visualizing SKOS RDF vocabularies.</ref> is a [[Java (programming language)|Java]] [[Open-source software|open-source]] application for creating and visualizing SKOS vocabularies.

* The W3C provides an experimental on-line validation service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/validation|title=Validation Services - SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System|website=www.w3.org}}</ref>

* Vocbench<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vocbench.uniroma2.it/|title=VocBench: A Collaborative Management System for SKOS-XL Thesauri|website=vocbench.uniroma2.it}}</ref> is an open-source, web-based RDF/OWL/SKOS/SKOS-XL editor developed by a collaboration between the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] (FAO) of the United Nations, the [[University of Rome Tor Vergata]] and the Malaysian research centre [[MIMOS]]. It supports the FAO's multilingual agricultural thesaurus [[AGROVOC]], among other resources of FAO and the European Community.

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* PoolParty<ref>[http://www.poolparty.biz/ PoolParty] is a thesaurus management system and a SKOS editor for the Semantic Web.</ref> is a commercial-quality thesaurus management system and a SKOS editor for the Semantic Web including text analysis functionalities and [[Linked Data]] capabilities.

* qSKOS<ref>[https://github.com/cmader/qSKOS/ qSKOS] is an open-source tool for SKOS vocabulary quality assessment.</ref> is an open-source tool for performing quality assessment of SKOS vocabularies by checking against a quality issue catalog.

* SKOSEd<ref>[http://code.google.com/p/skoseditor/ SKOSEd] SKOS plugin for Protege 4</ref> is an open source plug-in for the Protégé 4<ref>Protégé 4 Protégé 4 OWL editor</ref> [[Web Ontology Language|OWL]] ontology editor that supports authoring SKOS vocabularies. SKOSEd has an accompanying SKOS API<ref>[httphttps://skosapi.sourceforge.net/ SKOS Java API] Java API for SKOS</ref> written in Java that can be used to build SKOS-based applications.

* Model Futures SKOS Exporter<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.modelfutures.com/software |title=Model Futures Excel SKOS Exporter |access-date=2010-11-08 |archive-date=2019-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105144258/http://www.modelfutures.com/software |url-status=dead }}</ref> for [[Microsoft Excel]] allows simple vocabularies to be developed as indented Excel spreadsheets and exported as SKOS RDF. BETA version.

* Lexaurus<ref>[https://www.k-int.com/products/lexaurus/ Lexaurus] is an enterprise thesaurus management system and multi-format editor.</ref> is an enterprise thesaurus management system and multi-format editor. Its extensive API includes full revision management. SKOS is one of its many supported formats.