Version 1.0
Published: 2019-05-01 Updated: 2022-02-17*
Content
Description
XKOS leverages the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) for managing statistical classifications and concept management systems, since SKOS is widely used. LOD is used to create Web artifacts that machines can interpret, so publishing machine-readable statistical classifications and other concept management systems as SKOS instances is desired. The XKOS developers found that SKOS was insufficient for the problem. No aspect of SKOS was found to be wrong, just incomplete. Therefore, an extension to SKOS, called XKOS, is proposed.
XKOS extends SKOS for the needs of statistical classifications. It does so in two main directions. First, it defines a number of terms that enable the representation of statistical classifications with their structure and textual properties, as well as the relations between classifications. Second, it refines SKOS semantic properties to allow the use of more specific relations between concepts. Those specific relations can be used for the representation of classifications or for any other case where SKOS is employed. XKOS adds the extensions that are desirable to meet the requirements of the statistical community.
Applications
- Publication of Statistical Classification in and web environment
- Refined specification of relationships between concepts in a classification structure
Informational Documentations
- Discussion forum
- Subscription email address: ddi-rdf-vocabulary+subscribe@googlegroups.com
- Address for sending an email to the list: ddi-rdf-vocabulary@googlegroups.com
- GitHub repository (revision control system)
- Issue tracker
Markup Examples
- Implementation in French: Codes et nomenclatures de l'Insee.
License
The XKOS vocabulary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
Development Work
English: "XKOS: an SKOS extension for representing statistical classifications" - This ontology is based on work initiated at Dagstuhl Schloss in September 2011
French "XKOS : une extension de SKOS pour la représentation des nomenclatures statistiques" - Cette ontologie est basée sur le travail commencé à Dagstuhl Schloss en septembre 2011
Contributors: Daniel Gillman, Wendy L. Thomas, Richard Cyganiak, Jannik Jensen, Thomas Bosch, R.T.A.M. Grim, Yves Jaques
Future Work
Selected Articles
- Dan Gillman, Franck Cotton, and Yves Jaques. eXtended Knowledge Organization System (XKOS), presentation. METIS, Work Session on Statistical Metadata, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2013.
- Frank Cotton, Richard Cyganiak, R.T.A.M. Grim, Daniel W. Gillman, Yves Jaques, and Wendy Thomas. XKOS: An SKOS Extension for Statistical Classifications. The Hague, The Netherlands: Proceedings of the 59th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, 2013.
- Frank Cotton, Richard Cyganiak, R.T.A.M. Grim, Daniel W. Gillman, Yves Jaques, and Wendy Thomas. XKOS: An SKOS Extension for Statistical Classifications -- Poster.