SKOS Concept

A SKOS Concept is a Concept Record within the SKOS Standard.

• See: SKOS Concept Collection, OWL Class.

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References

2009

• (Miles & Bechhofer, 2009) ⇒ Alistair Miles, and Sean Bechhofer. (2009). “SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference." W3C Recommendation, 18 August 2009.
  • 3. The skos:Concept Class
  • The class skos:Concept is the class of SKOS concepts.
  • A SKOS concept can be viewed as - an idea or notion; a unit of thought. However, what constitutes a unit of thought is subjective, and this definition is meant to be suggestive, rather than restrictive.
  • The notion of a SKOS concept is useful when describing the conceptual or intellectual structure of a knowledge organization system, and when referring to specific ideas or meanings established within a KOS.
  • Note that, because SKOS is designed to be a vehicle for representing semi-formal KOS, such as thesauri and classification schemes, a certain amount of flexibility has been built in to the formal definition of this class.

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