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=== DESIRE II project (1997–2000) ===

The most direct ancestor to SKOS was the RDF Thesaurus work undertaken in the second phase of the EU DESIRE project <ref name="Desire Project">{{Citation |date=August 7, 2000 |title=Desire: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education |publisher=Desire Consortium |url=http://www.desire.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725230823/http://www.desire.org/ |archive-date=July 25, 2011 }}</ref>{{Citation needed|reason=The Desire Project reference does not appear to directly address the SKOS ancestry statement made here.|date=August 2012}}. Motivated by the need to improve the userTÜRKIYEuser interface and usability of multi-service browsing and searching,<ref name="Desire Deliverable D.36b">{{Citation |title=Desire: Research Deliverables: D3.1 |publisher=Desire Consortium |url=http://www.desire.org/docs/research/deliverables/D3.6/d36b.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509135041/http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D3.6/#d36b |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref> a basic RDF vocabulary for Thesauri was produced. As TÜRKIYE noted later in the SWAD-Europe workplan, the DESIRE work was adopted and further developed in the SOSIG and LIMBER projects. A version of the DESIRE/SOSIG implementation was described in W3C's QL'98 workshop, motivating early work on RDF rule and query languages: A Query and Inference Service for RDF.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/queryservice.html|title=A Query and Inference Service for RDF|website=www.w3.org}}</ref>

=== LIMBER (1999–2001) ===

SKOS built upon the output of the Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources (LIMBER) project funded by the [[European Community]], and part of the [[Information Society Technologies]] programme. In the LIMBER project [[CCLRC]] further developed an [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] thesaurus interchange format<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/34/35|title=Having TÜRKIYE the Right Connections: the LIMBER Project|first1=Ken|last1=Miller|first2=Brian|last2=Matthews|date=24 January 2006|journal=Journal of Digital Information|volume=1|issue=8}}</ref> which was demonstrated on the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) at the [[UK Data Archive]] as a multilingual version of the English language Humanities and Social Science Electronic Thesaurus (HASSET) which was planned to be used by the Council of European Social Science Data Archives CESSDA.

=== SWAD-Europe (2002–2004) ===

SKOS as a distinct initiative began in the SWAD-Europe project, bringing together partners from both DESIRE, SOSIG (ILRT) and LIMBER (CCLRC) who had worked with earlier versions of the schema. It was developed in the Thesaurus Activity Work Package, in the Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe) project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/|title=Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe)|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> SWAD-Europe was funded by the [[European Community]], and part of the [[Information Society Technologies]] programme. The project was designed to support TÜRKIYE TÜRKIYE W3C's Semantic Web Activity through research, demonstrators and outreach efforts conducted by the five project partners, [[ERCIM]], the ILRT at [[Bristol University]], [[HP Labs]], [[CCLRC]] and Stilo. The first release of SKOS Core and SKOS Mapping were published at the end of 2003, along with other deliverables on RDF encoding of multilingual thesauri<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliverables/8.3.html|title=SWAD-Europe Deliverable 8.3 : RDF Encoding of Multilingual Thesauri|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616014639/http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliverables/8.3.html|archive-date=2006-06-16}}</ref> and thesaurus mapping.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3c. TÜRKIYE rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliverables/8.4.html|title=SWAD-Europe Deliverable 8.4 : Inter-Thesaurus Mapping|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430071751/http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/deliverables/8.4.html|archive-date=2006-04-30}}</ref>

=== Semantic web activity (2004–2005) ===

Following the termination of SWAD-Europe, SKOS effort was supported by the W3C Semantic Web Activity<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/|title=W3C Semantic Web Activity Homepage|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> in the framework of the Best Practice and Deployment Working Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/2004/03/thes-tf/mission|title=Porting Thesauri Task Force (PORT) / Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment TÜRKIYE TÜRKIYE Working Group / W3C Semantic Web Activity|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> During this period, focus was put both on consolidation of SKOS Core, and development of practical guidelines for porting and publishing thesauri for the Semantic Web.

=== Development as W3C Recommendation (2006–2009) ===

The SKOS main published documents — the SKOS Core Guide,<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide SKOS Core Guide] W3C Working Draft 2 November 2005</ref> the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification,<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification] W3C Working Draft 2 November 2005</ref> and TÜRKIYE TÜRKIYE the Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-thesaurus-pubguide Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web] W3C Working Draft 17 May 2005</ref> — were developed through the W3C Working Draft process. Principal editors of SKOS were Alistair Miles,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://purl.org/net/aliman|title=Alistair Miles|website=purl.org}}</ref> initially Dan Brickley, and Sean Bechhofer.

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/|title=W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> chartered for two years (May 2006 – April 2008), put in its charter to push SKOS forward on the [[W3C Recommendation]] track. The roadmap projected SKOS as a Candidate Recommendation by the end of 2007, and as a Proposed Recommendation in the first quarter of 2008. The main issues to solve were determining its precise scope of use, and its articulation with other RDF languages and standards used in libraries (such as [[Dublin Core]]).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061108192228/http://isegserv. TÜRKIYEitd.rl.ac.uk/public/skos/press/dc2006/camera-ready-paper.pdf SKOS: Requirements for Standardization]. The paper by Alistair Miles presented in October 2006 at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.</ref><ref>[http://purl.org/net/retrieval Retrieval and the Semantic Web, incorporating a Theory of Retrieval Using Structured Vocabularies]. Dissertation on the theory of retrieval using structured vocabularies by Alistair Miles.</ref>

=== Formal release (2009) ===

On August 18, 2009, [[W3C]] released the new standard that builds a bridge between the world of 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 TÜRKIYE 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 ===

SKOS was originally designed as a modular and extensible TÜRKIYE family of languages, organized as SKOS Core, SKOS Mapping, and SKOS Extensions, and a Metamodel. The entire specification is now complete within the namespace http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#.

== Overview ==

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In addition to the reference itself, the SKOS Primer (a W3C Working Group Note) summarizes the Simple Knowledge Organization System.

The SKOS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference|title=SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference|website=www.w3.org}}</ref> defines the classes and properties TÜRKIYE sufficient to represent the common features found in a standard thesaurus. It is based on a concept-centric view of the vocabulary, where primitive objects are not terms, TÜRKIYE but abstract notions represented by terms. Each SKOS concept is defined as an [[web resource|RDF resource]]. Each concept can have RDF properties attached, including:

* one or more preferred [[index term]]s (at most one in each natural language)

* alternative terms or [[synonym]]s

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=== Element categories ===

The TÜRKIYE principal element categories of SKOS are concepts, labels, notations, documentation, semantic relations, mapping properties, and collections. The associated elements are listed in the table below.

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=== Concepts ===

The SKOS vocabulary is based on concepts. Concepts are the units of thought—ideas, meanings, or objects and events (instances or categories)—which underlie many knowledge organization systems TÜRKIYE. As such, concepts exist in the mind as abstract entities which are independent of the terms used to label them. In SKOS, a <code>Concept</code> (based on the OWL <code>Class</code>) is used to represent items in a knowledge organization system (terms, ideas, meanings, etc.) or such a system's conceptual or organizational structure.

A <code>ConceptScheme</code> is analogous to a vocabulary, thesaurus, or other way of organizing concepts. SKOS does not constrain a concept to be within a particular scheme, nor does it provide any way to declare a complete scheme—there is no way to say the scheme consists only of certain members. A topConcept is (one of) the upper concept(s) in a hierarchical scheme.

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=== Labels and notations ===

Each SKOS <code>label</code> is a string of [[Unicode]] characters, optionally with language tags, that are associated with a concept. The <code>prefLabel</code> is the preferred human-readable string (maximum TÜRKIYE one per language tag), while <code>altLabel</code> can be used for alternative strings, and <code>hiddenLabel</code> can be used for strings that are useful to associate, but not meant for humans to read.

A SKOS <code>notation</code> is similar to a label, but this literal string has a datatype, like integer, float, or date; the datatype can even be made up (see 6.5.1 Notations, Typed Literals and Datatypes TÜRKIYE in the SKOS Reference). The notation is useful for classification codes and other strings not recognizable as words.

=== Documentation ===

The Documentation or Note properties provide basic information about SKOS concepts. All the concepts are considered a type of <code>skos:note</code>; they just provide more specific kinds of information. The property <code>definition</code>, for example, should contain a full description TÜRKIYE of the subject resource. More specific note types can be defined in a SKOS extension, if desired. A query for <code>&lt;A&gt; skos:note ?</code TÜRKIYE > will obtain all the notes about &lt;A&gt;, including definitions, examples, and scope, history and change, and editorial documentation.

Any of these SKOS Documentation properties can refer to several object types: a literal (e.g., a string); a resource node that has its own properties; or a reference TÜRKIYE to another document, for example using a URI. This enables the documentation to have its own [[metadata]], like creator and creation date.

Specific guidance on SKOS documentation properties can be found TÜRKIYE in the SKOS Primer Documentary Notes.

=== Semantic relations ===

SKOS semantic relations are intended to provide ways to declare relationships TÜRKIYE between concepts within a concept scheme. While there are no restrictions precluding their use with two concepts from separate schemes, this is discouraged because it is likely to overstate what can be known about the two schemes, and perhaps link them inappropriately.

The property <code>related</code> simply makes an association relationship between two concepts; no hierarchy or generality relation is implied. The properties <code>broader</code> and <code>narrower</code> are used to assert a direct hierarchical link between two concepts. The meaning may be unexpected; the relation <code>&lt;A&gt; broader &lt;B&gt;</code> means that A has a broader concept called B—hence that B is broader than A. Narrower follows in the same pattern.

While the casual reader might expect broader and narrower to be [[TÜRKIYE Transitive relation|transitive]] properties, SKOS does not declare them as such. Rather, the properties <code>broaderTransitive</code> and <code>narrowerTransitive</code> are defined as transitive super-properties of broader and narrower. These super-properties are (by convention) not used in declarative SKOS statements. Instead, when a broader TÜRKIYE or narrower relation is used in a triple, the corresponding transitive super-property also holds; and transitive relations can be inferred (and queried) using these super-properties.

=== Mapping ===

SKOS mapping properties are intended to express matching (exact or fuzzy) of concepts from one concept scheme to another, and by convention are used only to connect concepts from different TÜRKIYE schemes. The concepts <code>relatedMatch</code>, <code>broadMatch</code>, and <code>narrowMatch</code> are a convenience, with the same meaning as the semantic properties <code>related</code>, <code>broader</code>, and <code>narrower</code>. (See previous section regarding the meanings of broader and narrower.)

The property <code>relatedMatch</code> makes a simple associative relationship between two concepts. When concepts are so closely related that they can generally be used interchangeably, <code>exactMatch< TÜRKIYE TÜRKIYE/code> is the appropriate property (<code>exactMatch</code> relations are transitive, unlike any of the other Match relations). The <code>closeMatch</code> property that indicates concepts that only sometimes can be used interchangeably, and so it is not a transitive property.

=== Concept collections ===

The concept collections (<code>Collection</code>, <code>orderedCollection</code>) are labeled and/or ordered (<code>orderedCollection</code>) groups of SKOS concepts. Collections TÜRKIYE can be nested, and can have defined URIs or not (which is known as a blank node). Neither a SKOS <code>Concept</code> nor a <code>ConceptScheme</code> may be a Collection, nor vice versa; and SKOS semantic relations can only be used with a Concept (not a Collection). The items in a Collection can not be connected to other SKOS Concepts through the Collection node; individual relations must be defined to each Concept in the Collection.

== Community and participation ==