Taxonomy and Thesaurus Development Using SKOS

Organise & curate data into rich taxonomy and thesaurus structures with the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Created by: Tish Chungoora
Knowledge Graph Consultant | Ph.D. | CSPO | BCS Certified

What Will I Learn?

• Articulate the purpose and applications of taxonomies and thesauri, and recognise different types of taxonomies
• Understand the building blocks provided in the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• Utilise SKOS Core to develop taxonomies and thesauri, as well as to support the semantic curation of concepts and terms
• Run SPARQL queries to interrogate SKOS-structured taxonomies and thesauri
• Recognise important system architecture considerations when scaling SKOS-based knowledge graphs

Requirements

• [Skills - Must Have] Foundational understanding of RDF and SPARQL
• [Skills - Must Have] Basic ontology development skills using the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• [Tooling] Protégé ontology editor (download instructions provided in Section 3)
• [Tooling] Text/code editor, e.g. Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, TextEdit (Mac), Notepad (Windows), etc.

Target audience

• Individuals who work in data management, e.g. metadata managers, data governors, data consultants, etc.
• Information & metadata architects, and software developers who need to learn how to build taxonomies & thesauri based on Semantic Web standards
• Early-career library science and information/knowledge management professionals
• Content and document management professionals with an interest in taxonomy standards & modelling approaches