SKOSia
SKOSia is a fictional, open-source platform described as a comprehensive knowledge-organization system built on the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It serves as an illustrative example for libraries, museums, and educational repositories seeking to model thesauri, taxonomies, and classification schemes using SKOS concepts. The description below presents SKOSia as a case study for educational purposes and does not refer to a real project.
Structure: The core is a ConceptScheme that contains Concept resources. Each Concept has preferred labels (skos:prefLabel)
Mapping and alignment: Concepts may be linked to external schemes using skos:exactMatch, skos:closeMatch, skos:broadMatch, and skos:narrowMatch,
Governance and metadata: SKOSia emphasizes provenance, licensing, versioning, and stewardship. Each ConceptScheme carries metadata about authorship,
Implementation and use: SKOSia supports exports in RDF serializations such as Turtle or RDF/XML, and can provide
Use cases and status: The article presents SKOSia as a fictional illustration for education and research in
Example concept: Education (prefLabel: Education in English, Éducation in French, Bildung in German) with a broader