TECHNOLOGY

SKOS

SKOS is a W3C data model for publishing thesauri, taxonomies, classification schemes and other knowledge organization systems on the Web.

active production

EDITORIAL FRAME

What this entry establishes.

A concise view of its scope, position, limitations and supporting sources.

Technology role

SKOS provides a lightweight model for labels, broader and narrower concepts, associative links, concept schemes and vocabulary mappings.

Reference

Topics

SKOSTaxonomyControlled VocabularyKnowledge SystemsInformation ArchitectureSemantic Web

Sources

SKOS represents concepts, labels, notes, hierarchies, associations and mappings without requiring the full formal expressivity of OWL.

It is relevant to Electronic Artefacts disciplines, tags, multilingual labels and future vocabulary exports.

See W3C SKOS, Ontology and Metadata.

DOCUMENTED RELATIONSHIPS

Each link names the relationship between two entries and why it matters.

implementation

Used by

Ontologies, Taxonomies and Knowledge Modeling uses SKOS as its vocabulary and taxonomy reference.

structure

Member of collection

SKOS is an explicit member of the Knowledge Hub Third Wave collection.

evidence

Documented by

Ontologies, Taxonomies and Knowledge Modeling documents SKOS as one of its declared subjects.

Record details Metadata, sharing and citation

Reference

SKOS. 1.0.0. Electronic Artefacts, 2026-06-24. https://electronicartefacts.com/knowledge/technologies/skos/

Related context

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