Publish your SKOS vocabulary with Skosmos

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Publish your SKOS vocabulary with Skosmos Osma Suominen and Henri Ylikotila SWIB14, Bonn, December 3, 2014

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How do you put a thesaurus* on the web? * or any KOS: classification, authority file, term list, lightweight ontology...

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LCSH MeSH STW Iconclass TheSoz EuroVoc GND SWD Agrovoc AAT

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How do you put a thesaurus on the Semantic Web?

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1. Make a SKOS/RDF file 2. Put it in a triple store 3. Set up Pubby* to serve RDF and HTML 4. Maybe allow SPARQL access * or Elda, Loddy...

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+ User interface Linked Data RESTful Search API +

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Skosmos SKOS publishing platform for SPARQL endpoints

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SPARQL

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SPARQL Skosmos

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SPARQL Skosmos

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Demo

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Linked data query for labels

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Skosmos is open source software ● Available under MIT License ● Developed on GitHub https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos

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Implementation ● PHP with Twig templates ● EasyRdf for SPARQL access and RDF parsing

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Key features ● Multilingual browser interface ○ Autocomplete search ○ Alphabetical index ○ Concept hierarchy display ● REST API for enabling use of vocabularies in other applications ○ responses usually JSON-LD

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User groups ● Indexers who describe documents ● Thesaurus managers ● Software developers

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Organizations that use Skosmos ● The National Library of Finland - Finto.fi ○ Used by museums, libraries, archives, Finnish broadcasting company, etc. ■ http://finto.fi/ ● Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN ○ Agrovoc browser ■ http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/functionalities/search ○ GACS project (presentation coming up next) ● Oslo University Library is testing Skosmos

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http://finto.fi

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AGROVOC browser http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/functionalities/search

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Requirements ● SPARQL 1.1 endpoint ○ with one or more SKOS vocabularies ○ recommended: Jena Fuseki with jena-text index ● server with Apache and PHP See documentation in the Skosmos wiki: https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/wiki

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1. Make a SKOS/RDF file 2. Put it in a SPARQL triple store 3. Set up Skosmos 4. Have users, Linked Data agents and API clients come to your thesaurus 5. ??? 6. Profit!!!

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Thank you! [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] These slides: http://tinyurl.com/publish-with-skosmos