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<h1 style="clear:both" id="title">SKOS Use Cases and Requirements</h1>
<h2 id="W3C-doctype">W3C Working Group Note 18 August 2009</h2>
<dl>
<dt>This version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-ucr-20090818/"
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-ucr-20090818/</a></dd>
<dt>Latest version:</dt>
<dd><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-ucr">http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-ucr</a></dd>
<dt>Previous version:</dt>
<dd><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-skos-ucr-20070516/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-skos-ucr-20070516/</a></dd>
<dt>Editors:</dt>
<dd>Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, <a
href="mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl">aisaac@few.vu.nl</a></dd>
<dd>Jon Phipps, Cornell University, <a
href="mailto:jphipps@madcreek.com">jphipps@madcreek.com</a></dd>
<dd>Daniel Rubin, Stanford Medical Informatics, <a
href="mailto:dlrubin@stanford.edu">dlrubin@stanford.edu</a></dd>
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<hr />
<h2 id="abstract">Abstract</h2>
<p>Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or subject
heading lists, play a fundamental role in information structuring and access.
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group aims at providing a model for
representing such vocabularies on the Semantic Web: SKOS (Simple Knowledge
Organization System).</p>
<p>This document presents the preparatory work for the 2009 version of SKOS
[<cite><a href="#SKOS-REFERENCE">SKOS-REFERENCE</a></cite>]. It lists
representative use cases, which were obtained after a dedicated questionnaire
was sent to a wide audience. It also features a set of fundamental or
secondary requirements derived from these use cases, that have been used to
guide the design of SKOS.</p>
<p>This document is a companion to the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference">SKOS Reference</a> and the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/">SKOS Primer</a>, which respectively
provide the normative reference on SKOS and a user guide for those who would
like to represent their concept scheme using SKOS.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="status">Status of this document</h2>
<p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current
W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be
found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index</a>
at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">http://www.w3.org/TR/</a>.</em></p>
<p>This document is an editorial update to the first public
Working Draft of the "SKOS (Simple
Knowledge Organization System) Use Cases and Requirements", developed by the
W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/">Semantic Web Deployment Working
Group</a> [<a href="#SWD">SWD</a>]. Publication of this version is
concurrent with the advancement of the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference">SKOS Reference</a>
to W3C Recommendation.</p>
<p>The <a href="#L7057">Use Cases</a> detailed in this document have been
selected as representative of the use cases submitted in response to a "<a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2006Dec/0036.html">Call
for Use Cases</a>" published in December 2006. These use cases as well as <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/products/3">Issues</a> identified
by the working group have resulted in draft <a
href="#Requirements">Requirements</a> that will guide the design of the
future SKOS Recommendaton. Early feedback is therefore most useful. Feedback
on use cases that can help to resolve <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/products/3">open issues</a> is
especially important. Note also that any feature listed under <a
href="#Candidate">Candidate Requirements</a> should be considered as "at
risk" without further feedback.</p>
<p>Comments on this document may be sent to <a
href="mailto:public-swd-wg@w3.org">public-swd-wg@w3.org</a>; please include
the text "[SKOS] UCR comment" in the subject line. All messages received at
this address are viewable in a <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/">public archive</a>.</p>
<p>Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.</p>
<p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February 2004
W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a <a rel="disclosure"
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39408/status">public list of any
patent disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables of the group;
that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual
who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">Essential
Claim(s)</a> must disclose the information in accordance with <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section
6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="Table"><a id="toc" name="toc"></a>Table of Contents</h2>
<div class="toc">
<ul>
<li><a href="#Table">Table of contents</a></li>
<li><a href="#L7031">1 Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#L7057">2 Use Cases</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#UC-Manuscripts">2.1 Use Case #1 — An integrated view to
medieval illuminated manuscripts</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-Biozen">2.2 Use Case #2 — Bio-zen ontology framework
for representing scientific discourse in life science</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-Aims">2.3 Use Case #3 — Semantic search service
across mapped multilingual thesauri in the agriculture domain</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">2.4 Use Case #4 —
Supporting product life cycle</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-RankingForDescription">2.5 Use Case #5 —
CHOICE@CATCH ranking of candidate terms for description of radio and
TV programs</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-BirnLex">2.6 Use Case #6 — BIRNLex: a lexicon for
neurosciences</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-RadLex">2.7 Use Case #7 — Radlex: a lexicon for
radiology</a></li>
<li><a href="#UC-MetadataRegistry">2.8 Use Case #8 — NSDL Metadata
Registry</a></li>
<li><a href="#Other">2.9 Other use cases</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Requirements">3 Requirements</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Accepted">3.1 Accepted requirements</a></li>
<li><a href="#Candidate">3.2 Candidate requirements</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Conclusion">4 Conclusion</a></li>
<li><a href="#References">References</a></li>
<li><a href="#Acknowledgments">Acknowledgments</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr />
<h2 id="L7031"><a id="section-introduction" name="section-introduction"></a>1
Introduction</h2>
<p>Knowledge organization systems play a fundamental role in information
structuring and access, e.g. for asset description or web site organization.
Such vocabularies, coming in the form of thesauri, classification schemes,
subject heading lists, taxonomies or even folksonomies, are developed and
used worldwide, by institutions as well as individuals. However these very
important knowledge resources are still mostly isolated from the outside
world, and not widely used in implementing systems.</p>
<p>The development of new information technologies and infrastructures, such
as the World Wide Web, calls for new ways to create, manage, publish and use
these knowledge organization systems. It is especially expected that
conceptual schemes will benefit from greater shareability, e.g. by being
published via web services. In the meantime, the documentary systems which
use them will turn to advanced information retrieval techniques to construct
most of their semantic structure and lexical content.</p>
<p>SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) provides a model to represent
and use vocabularies and ontologies in the framework of the Semantic Web. A
first version [<cite><a
href="#SWBP-SKOS-CORE-GUIDE">SWBP-SKOS-CORE-GUIDE</a></cite>] has been
produced by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment working group
[<cite><a href="#SWBPD">SWBPD</a></cite>], and is already used in some
research projects. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group [<cite><a
href="#SWD">SWD</a></cite>] has been chartered to continue this work, and to
"produce guidelines and an RDF vocabulary (SKOS) for transforming an existing
vocabulary representation into an RDF/OWL representation" [<cite><a
href="#SWD-Charter">SWD-Charter</a></cite>].</p>
<p>In order to delimit the scope and elicit the required features for SKOS,
the SWD working group has issued in December 2006 a call for use cases,
asking for descriptions of existing or planned SKOS applications, according
to a specific <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2006Dec/0036.html">questionnaire</a>.
Following the gathering of these use cases, the Working Group has elicited a
number of requirements for SKOS which are motivated by the previous work on
SKOS, or by contributions received following the call for use cases.</p>
<p>This document gives an account of this process. First, section 2 presents
summaries of selected contributions, and pointers to the complete set of
cases which were sent to the Working Group. Second, section 3 lists the
requirements the Working Group has elicited following the call for use
cases.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="L7057">2 Use Cases</h2>
<h3 id="UC-Manuscripts">2.1 Use Case #1 — An integrated view to medieval
illuminated manuscripts</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Antoine Isaac. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucManuscriptsDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucManuscriptsDetailed</a>
<span style="font-size: 10pt">and at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucIconclassDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucIconclassDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>The purpose of this application is to provide the user with access to two
collections of illuminated manuscripts from the Dutch and French national
libraries, <em>Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts</em> and <em>Mandragore</em>
(accessible online at <a
href="http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts">http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts</a> and <a
href="http://mandragore.bnf.fr">http://mandragore.bnf.fr</a>). The
descriptions of images from these two collections follow different metadata
schemes, and contain values from different controlled vocabularies for
subject indexing. The user should however be able to search for items from
the two collections using his preferred point of view, either using
vocabulary from collection 1 or vocabulary from collection 2.</p>
<p>The main feature of the current application—available on the STITCH
project site, <a
href="http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/">http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/</a>—is
collection browsing (previously in BNF_KB_demo.html), which uses hierarchical links in vocabularies: if a
concept matching a query has subconcepts, the documents indexed against these
subconcepts should be returned. The application also uses mapping links
between concepts from the two vocabularies. For example, if an equivalence
link is found between a query concept from one vocabulary and another concept
from the second one, documents indexed by this other concept shall also be
included in the query results.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-IndexingRelationship">R-IndexingRelationship</a></p>
<p>Additionally, the application enables search based on free text queries
over the collection metadata: documents can be retrieved based on free-text
querying of the different fields used to describe the documents (creator,
place, subject, etc.). For subject indexing, if a text query matches the
label of a controlled vocabulary concept, the documents indexed against this
concept will be returned.</p>
<p>The two collections use respectively the Iconclass and Mandragore analysis
vocabularies.</p>
<p>Iconclass (<a href="http://www.iconclass.nl">http://www.iconclass.nl</a>)
contains 28,000 classes used to describe the subjects of an image (persons,
event, abstract ideas). Complete versions are available for English, German,
French, Italian, and partial translations for Finnish and Norwegian.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-MultilingualLexicalInformation">R-MultilingualLexicalInformation</a></p>
<p>The main building blocks of Iconclass are <em>subjects</em>, used to
describe the subjects of images. An Iconclass subject consists of a
<em>notation</em> (an alphanumeric identifier used for annotation) and a
<em>textual correlate</em> (e.g. “25F9 mis-shapen animals; monsters”).
Subjects are organized in hierarchical trees, as in the following extract:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>2 Nature<br />
<div style="text-indent: 15pt">
25 earth, world as celestial body</div>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt">
25F animals</div>
<div style="text-indent: 45pt">
25F(+) KEY</div>
<div style="text-indent: 45pt">
25F1 groups of animals</div>
<div style="text-indent: 45pt">
</div>
<div style="text-indent: 45pt">
25F9 mis-shapen animals; monsters</div>
<div style="text-indent: 45pt">
25FF fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques');
'Mostri' (Ripa)</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Subjects can have associative cross-reference links between them
(<em>systematic references</em>) and are linked to <em>keywords</em> that are
used to search for them in Iconclass tools. Keywords form a network of their
own, featuring <em>see</em> links (from one non-preferred keyword, not
attached to any subject, to a preferred one), <em>see also</em> links
(between keywords that are semantically or iconographically related) and
<em>translation</em> links (between keywords in different languages).</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels">R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels</a></p>
<p>Iconclass additionally provides <em>auxiliary</em> mechanisms for subject
specialization at indexing time. These actually allow for collection-specific
vocabulary extension:</p>
<ul>
<li>by specializing a conceptual "placeholder" into a named individual
(<em>bracketed text</em>) : <code>11H(…) saints</code> can be
specialized into <code>11H(VALENTINE)</code>, which does not exist in the
standard Iconclass,</li>
<li>or by combining an existing subject with special auxiliaries (e.g.
<em>keys</em> and <em>structural digits</em>): <code>25F2 mammals</code>
can be combined with <code>(+33) head of an animal</code>, resulting in
<code>25F(+33)</code> which will index an image of a mammal's head. Or
<code>11H(VALENTINE)2</code> can be synthesized from
<code>11H(VALENTINE)</code> and <code>11H(...)2 early life of male
saint</code> to index an image which specifically denotes the early days
of St. Valentine.</li>
</ul>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-ConceptSchemeExtension">R-ConceptSchemeExtension</a>, <a
href="#R-SkosSpecialization">R-SkosSpecialization</a>, <a
href="#R-IndexingAndNonIndexingConcepts">R-IndexingAndNonIndexingConcepts</a>,
<a href="#R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</a></p>
<p>Maintenance of the vocabulary is done via manual editing of
semi-structured source files. As a general rule, the standard version will
only be changed in a conservative way, not modifying the existing
subjects.</p>
<p>Mandragore contains 16,000 subjects. 15,800 are <em>descriptors</em>,
which are used to describe the illuminations and form a flat list. Additional
structure is given by 200 <em>abstract topic classes</em> which form a
hierarchy organizing the descriptors according to general domains, but cannot
themselves be used to describe documents:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
ZOOLOGIE</div>
<div style="text-indent: 15pt">
.zoologie (généralités)</div>
<div style="text-indent: 15pt">
.mollusques</div>
<div style="text-indent: 15pt">
.mammifères</div>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt">
cochon [mammifère ongulé]</div>
<div style="text-indent: 30pt">
girafe [mammifère ongulé]</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>A descriptor is specified by a French label (“cochon”, for pig),
optional rejected forms (“porc”), an optional definition (“mamifère
ongulé”, hoofed mammal) and a reference to one or more topic classes
(“.mammifères”, mammals). A note can sometimes be found as a
complementary definition.</p>
<p>To enable integrated browsing, elements from Mandragore and Iconclass
vocabularies must be linked together using equivalence or specialization
links as in the following:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>25F72 molluscs</code> (Iconclass) is equivalent to
<code>mollusques</code> (Mandragore) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>25F711 insects</code> (Iconclass) is more specific than
<code>autres invertébrés (vers,arachnides,insectes...)</code>
("other invertebrates (worms, arachnida, insects)", Mandragore) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>11U4 Mary and John the Baptist together with (e.g. kneeling
before) the judging Christ, 'Deesis' ~ Last Judgement</code>
(Iconclass) is equivalent to the <em>combination</em> of subjects
<code>s.marie</code>, <code>s.jean.baptiste</code>,
<code>christ</code> and <code>jugement.dernier</code> (Mandragore)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>25F(+441) herd, group of animals</code> (Iconclass) is
equivalent to <code>troupeau</code> (Mandragore) </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</a></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-Biozen">2.2 Use Case #2 — Bio-zen ontology framework for
representing scientific discourse in life science</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Matthias Samwald,
Medizinische Universität Wien. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucBiozenDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucBiozenDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>Bio-zen (<a
href="http://neuroscientific.net/index.php?id=43">http://neuroscientific.net/index.php?id=43</a>)
allows the description of biological systems and the representation of
scientific discourse on the web in a highly distributed manner. It is
intended to be used by researchers and developers in the life sciences.</p>
<p>SKOS is used in bio-zen for the representation of many existing life
sciences vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies coming from the "Open
Biomedical Ontologies" (OBO) collection (<a
href="http://www.fruitfly.org/~cjm/obo-download/">http://www.fruitfly.org/~cjm/obo-download/</a>).
The size of all converted taxonomies taken together is on the order of
millions of concepts. Typical examples are the Gene Ontology or Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH), an entry of which is displayed here:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>id</td>
<td>MESH:A.01.047.025</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>name</td>
<td>abdominal_cavity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>def</td>
<td>"The region in the abdomen extending from the thoracic DIAPHRAGM to
the plane of the superior pelvic aperture (pelvic inlet). The
abdominal cavity contains the PERITONEUM and abdominal VISCERA\, as
well as the extraperitoneal space which includes the RETROPERITONEAL
SPACE." [MESH:A.01.047.025]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>synonym</td>
<td>abdominal_cavity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>synonym</td>
<td>cavitas_abdominis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>is_a</td>
<td>MESH:A.01.047 ! abdomen</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts">R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts</a></p>
<p>To represent such vocabulary elements as well as other types of
information, the existing SKOS model has been integrated into a single OWL
ontology, together with the DOLCE foundational ontology and the Dublin Core
metadata model. In the process, the SKOS model has been extended with special
types of concepts, e.g. biozen:sequence-concept. To enable efficient
reasoning with the available dataset, it is important to note that existing
constructs have been made compatible with the OWL-DL language.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL">R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL</a></p>
<p>The bio-zen framework will consist of several applications, especially
Semantic Wikis. A Bio-zen ontology incorporates constructs to make statements
about digital information resources, that is creating "concept tags". This
concept-tagging is an important feature of bio-zen, because it eases the
integration of information from different sources.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-IndexingRelationship">R-IndexingRelationship</a></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-Aims">2.3 Use Case #3 — Semantic search service across mapped
multilingual thesauri in the agriculture domain</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Margherita Sini and Johannes
Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucAimsDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucAimsDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>This application coming from the AIMS project (<a
href="http://www.fao.org/aims">http://www.fao.org/aims</a>) is a semantic
search service that makes use of mapped agriculture thesauri. It allows users
to search any available terminology in any of the languages in which the
thesauri are provided and retrieve information from resources which may have
been indexed by one of the mapped vocabularies. Typical functions are
navigating resources, helping to build boolean searches via concept
identification, or expanding given searches by extra languages or
synonyms.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-IndexingRelationship">R-IndexingRelationship</a></p>
<p>The service builds on several agriculture vocabularies: the Agrovoc
Thesaurus (<a
href="http://www.fao.org/aims/ag_intro.htm">http://www.fao.org/aims/ag_intro.htm</a>),
the Agris/Caris Classification Scheme (ASC), the FAO Technical Knowledge
Classification Scheme (TKCS), the subjects from the FAOTERM vocabulary,
etc.</p>
<p>Agrovoc contains 35,000 <em>terms</em> in 12 languages (not all of the
languages feature the same translated terms, however), while ASC, TCKS and
FAOTERM range between 100 and 200 categories available in the 5 official FAO
languages. Agrovoc terms consist of one or more words and always represent a
single concept. Terms are divided into <em>descriptors</em> and
<em>non-descriptors</em>, the first currently only used for indexing. For
each descriptor, a word block is displayed showing the relation to other
terms: BT (broader term), NT (narrower term), RT (related term), UF
(non-descriptor). There are also scope notes, used to clarify the meaning of
both descriptors and non-descriptors.</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>Term code</code></td>
<td><code>1939</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>Term label</code></td>
<td><code>EN : Cows, FR : Vache, ES : Vaca, AR : بقرات , ZH : ?牛
, PT : Vaca, CS : krávy, JA : 雌牛 , TH : ?ม่โค , SK :
kravy, DE : KUH</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>BT</code></td>
<td><code>Cattle (code 1391)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>NT</code></td>
<td><code>Suckler cows, Dairy cows (26767, 36875)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>RT</code></td>
<td><code>Heifers, Cow milk, Milk yielding animals, Females (3535,
4833, 15969, 16080)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>SNR</code></td>
<td><code>Females (15969)</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>Scope Note</code></td>
<td><code>Use only for cattle and zebu cattle; for other species use
"Females" (15969) plus the descriptor for the species</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts">R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts</a>,
<a
href="#R-MultilingualLexicalInformation">R-MultilingualLexicalInformation</a></p>
<p>Actually, the AIMS project includes some more specific links, presented in
<a
href="http://www.fao.org/aims/">http://www.fao.org/aims/</a> (formerly in cs_relationships.htm:
Concept-to-Concept relationships (subclass of; caused by; member of; part
of), Term-to-Term relationships (related term; synonym; translation) and
String-to-String relationships (spelling variant; acronym).</p>
<p>Examples of such links are:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>synonym</code></td>
<td><code>bucket</code></td>
<td><code>pail</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>abbreviation_of</code></td>
<td><code>Corp.</code></td>
<td><code>Corporation</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>acronym</code></td>
<td><code>Food and Agriculture Organization</code></td>
<td><code>FAO</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>spelling_variant</code></td>
<td><code>organisation</code></td>
<td><code>organization</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>translation</code></td>
<td><code>vache</code></td>
<td><code>cow</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>scientific_taxonomic_name</code></td>
<td><code>African violet</code></td>
<td><code>Saintpaulia</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-SkosSpecialization">R-SkosSpecialization</a>, <a
href="#R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels">R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels</a></p>
<p>Currently the Agrovoc management system lacks distributed maintenance, but
it is expected that a new system will soon solve this problem, which is
crucial since changes are made by experts from all over the world.</p>
<p>For AIMS, Agrovoc has been converted into SKOS and is being mapped to two
other vocabularies: the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) and the National
Agricultural Library thesaurus (NAL). This mapping uses links inspired by the
SKOS mapping vocabulary [<cite><a
href="#SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING">SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING</a></cite>], as below:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>CAT-ID</td>
<td>CAT-EN</td>
<td>Map</td>
<td>AG-ID</td>
<td>AG-EN</td>
<td>AG-ID</td>
<td>AG-EN</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30854</td>
<td>Senta flammea</td>
<td>Exact</td>
<td>9748</td>
<td>Cheena</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>50008</td>
<td>Mayetola destructor</td>
<td>Exact-OR</td>
<td>24260</td>
<td>Triticale (gramineae)</td>
<td>7949</td>
<td>Triticales (product)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1160</td>
<td>Two-shear sheep</td>
<td>NT1</td>
<td>3662</td>
<td>Hordeum vulgare</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</a></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">2.4 Use Case #4 — Supporting product
life cycle</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Sean Barker, BAE Systems.
<br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucProductLifeCycleSupportDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucProductLifeCycleSupportDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>The problem of the Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) application is to
integrate a network of interconnected supply chains, with multiple, large
customers buying a wide range of products (from shoes to aircraft) each
dictating their own standards, and with every supplier being part of multiple
supply chains. Each customer wants to maintain a common approach over all its
supply chains. And each supplier wants to maintain the same system for each
of the supply chains it works in.</p>
<p>The aim of this application is to propose a data exchange mechanism for
managing the life support of complex products (<a
href="http://www.oasis-open.org">http://www.oasis-open.org</a>), including
configuration definition, maintenance definition, maintenance planning and
scheduling, and maintenance and usage recording (including configuration
change).</p>
<p>For that, an upper ontology of several hundred items for the description
of the product life cycle will be defined. There is no chance of the entire
supply system (10,000's of businesses) developing a single detailed model.
However, given the upper ontology, they will be free to specialize individual
ontology terms (playing the role of place holders for local extension) to
meet their precise needs.</p>
<p>PLCS is conceptually a co-operatively developed web in XML, with the live
version being a set of runtime views assembled from files submitted by a
dozen or so contributors. It may be useful, where ontologies diverge, to map
terms between the diverging branches, either to indicate where terms can be
harmonized to their equivalent, or to identify that there is a similarity
link that is not exact equivalence.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-ConceptSchemeExtension">R-ConceptSchemeExtension</a>, <a
href="#R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</a></p>
<p>The PLCS vocabulary addresses hundreds of separate functions, including
classification of items, classification of information usages (e.g. types of
part identifier), classification of entity roles (e.g. date as start date) or
classification of relationships (e.g. supersedes).</p>
<p>Typical examples of terms are:</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Identification_code</td>
<td>An Identification_code is an identifier_type which is encoded
according to some convention. Typically but not necessarily
concatenated from parts each with a meaning. E.g. tag number, serial
number, package number and document number.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Part_identification_code</td>
<td>A Part_indentfication_code is an Identification_code that
identifies the types of parts. For example, a part number. <br />
CONSTRAINT: An Identification_assignment classified as a
Part_identification_code can only be assigned to Part
Organization_name. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Owner_of</td>
<td>An Owner_of is an Organization_or_person_in_organization_assignment
that is assigning a person or organization to something in the role
of owner. <br />
For example, the owner of the car. </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The vocabulary has been encoded using OWL, and is managed via the Protege
OWL editor.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts">R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts</a></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-RankingForDescription">2.5 Use Case #5 — CHOICE@CATCH ranking of
candidate terms for description of radio and TV programs</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Véronique Malaisé and
Hennie Brugman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRankingForDescriptionDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRankingForDescriptionDetailed</a>
<span style="font-size: 10pt">and at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucGtaaBrowser"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucGtaaBrowser</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>Radio and television programs at the Dutch national broadcasting archive
(Sound and Vision, <a
href="http://www.beeldengeluid.nl">http://www.beeldengeluid.nl</a>) are
typically associated with contextual text descriptions: web site texts,
subtitles, program guide texts, texts from the production process, etc. These
context documents are used by documentalists at Sound and Vision who manually
describe programs using concepts from the GTAA thesaurus (Gemeenschappelijke
Thesaurus Audiovisuele Archieven—Common Thesaurus for Audiovisual
Archives).</p>
<p>The CHOICE project (part of the Dutch CATCH research program) uses natural
language processing techniques to automatically extract candidate GTAA terms
from the context documents. The application focused on in this section takes
these candidate terms as input, and ranks them on the basis of the structure
of the GTAA thesaurus. For example, the fact that "Voting" and
"Democratization" are related in GTAA by a two-step path (via the "Election"
term and two "related-to" links) will positively influence the ranking of
these terms. Ranked terms will be presented to documentalists to speed up
their description work.</p>
<p>The GTAA vocabulary covers a wide range of topics, as it is meant to
describe anything that can be broadcast on TV or radio. It contains
approximately 160,000 terms, divided into 6 disjoint facets: Keywords,
Locations, Person Names, Organization-Group-Other Names, Maker Names, and
Genres.</p>
<p>The thesaurus mainly uses constructs from the ISO 2788 standard, like
Broader Term, Narrower Term, Related Term and Scope Notes. Terms from all
facets of the GTAA may have Related Terms, Use/Use For and Scope Notes, but
only Keywords and Genres can also have Broader Term/Narrower Term relations,
organizing them into a set of hierarchies. In addition to these standard
features, Keywords terms are thematically classified in 88 subcategories of
16 top Categories.</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Preferred Term</td>
<td>ambachten <em>(crafts)</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Related Terms</td>
<td>ondernemingen <em>(ventures)</em> , beroepen
<em>(professions)</em>, artistieke beroepen <em>(artistic
professions)</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Broader Term</td>
<td>beroepen <em>(professions)</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Narrower Terms</td>
<td>boekbinders <em>(bookbinders)</em>, bouwvakkers <em>(building
workers)</em>, glasblazers <em>(glassblowers)</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Scope Note</td>
<td>niet voor afzonderlijke ambachten maar alleen als verzamelbegrip,
bijv. voor (markten van) oude ambachten <em>(not for specific crafts,
only in general meaning, e.g. (markets of) old crafts)</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Categories</td>
<td>05 economie (economy), 09 techniek (technique)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-SkosSpecialization">R-SkosSpecialization</a></p>
<p>The application, envisioned as a SOAP web service, uses a Sesame RDF web
repository (<a href="http://openrdf.org">http://openrdf.org</a>) containing
the SKOS version of the GTAA thesaurus to retrieve the 'term contexts' of the
terms in the input list, which is stored in a local RDF repository.</p>
<p>This term context includes, for one given term, all terms that are
directly connected to it by Broader Term, Narrower Term or Related Term
relations. This includes pre-computed inter-facet links that are not part of
the ISO standard, though allowed by the GTAA data model. For example, one can
link a "King" in the Person facet to the general subject "Kings" and the
country which this King rules.</p>
<p>For the ranking, it is now assumed that candidate terms that are mutually
connected by thesaurus relations (directly or indirectly) are more likely to
be good descriptions than isolated candidate terms. Later on, it might be
interesting to differentiate between types of thesaurus relations, or to use
more complex patterns of these relations.</p>
<p>The thesaurus-based recommendation system can also be integrated with a
recommendation system that is based on co-occurences between terms that are
used in previously existing descriptions of programs.</p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-BirnLex">2.6 Use Case #6 — BIRNLex: a lexicon for
neurosciences</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by William Bug, Drexel
University College of Medicine. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucBirnLexDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucBirnLexDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>BIRNLex is an integrated ontology+lexicon used for various purposes —
some end-user/interactive, others back-end/infrastructure — within the BIRN
Project to support semantically-formal data annotation, semantic data
integration, and semantically-driven, federated query resolution.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</a>, <a
href="#R-IndexingRelationship">R-IndexingRelationship</a>, <a
href="#R-LexicalMappingLinks">R-LexicalMappingLinks</a></p>
<p>Below are examples of BIRNLex class definitions that illustrate the need
for lexical support and links to external knowledge sources. The general
design goals have been to use both the Dublin Core metadata elements and SKOS
where ever possible. The goal is to use SKOS for all lexical qualities. There
are certain annotation properties that should be shared across all biomedical
knowledge resources. There are other required elements specific to the
specific needs in BIRN (the group producing BIRNLex).</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Class</td>
<td>Anterior_ascending_limb_of_lateral_sulcus</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:birnlexCurator</td>
<td>Bill Bug</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:birnlexExternalSource</td>
<td>NeuroNames</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:bonfireID</td>
<td>C0262186</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:curationStatus</td>
<td>raw import</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:neuronames</td>
<td>ID 49</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:UmlsCui</td>
<td>C0262186</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>obo_annot:createdDate</td>
<td>"2006-10-08"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>obo_annot:modifiedDate</td>
<td>"2006-10-08"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>skos:prefLabel</td>
<td>Anterior_ascending_limb_of_lateral_sulcus</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>skos:scopeNote</td>
<td>human-only</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p></p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Class</td>
<td>Medium_spiny_neuron</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:birnlexCurator</td>
<td>Maryann Martone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:birnlexDefinition</td>
<td>The main projection neuron found in caudate nucleus, putamen and
nucleus accumbens...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:bonfireID</td>
<td>BF_C000100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>birn_annot:curationStatus</td>
<td>pending final vetting</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>dc:source</td>
<td>Maryann Martone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>obo_annot:createdDate</td>
<td>"2006-07-15"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>obo_annot:modifiedDate</td>
<td>"2006-09-28"^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>skos:prefLabel</td>
<td>Medium_spiny_neuron</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-CompatibilityWithDC">R-CompatibilityWithDC</a>, <a
href="#R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL">R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL</a>, <a
href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-ConceptSchemeExtension">R-ConceptSchemeExtension</a></p>
<p>The following is a subset of BIRNLex applications, either extant or in the
offing:</p>
<ul>
<li>online curation: tools to enable curating the BIRNLex ontology+lexicon
via the web;</li>
<li>annotation: applications designed to support domain experts annotating
neuroimaging data;</li>
<li>query/mediation: a mediator program federates more than 60 data
repositories. Site databases register with the mediator by mapping the
relevant elements from their resident data model into the mediator's
global model.</li>
</ul>
<p>In all of these applications, it is critical to have a clear, distinct,
and shared representation for the associated lexicon. For instance, when
integrating BIRN segmented brain images with those from other projects across
the net, use of lexical variants from a variety of public terminologies and
thesauri such as SNOMED and MeSH can provide a powerful means to largely
automate semantic integration of like entities - e.g., corresponding brain
region, equivalent behavioral assays described using different preferred
labels/names. In providing a community shared formalism for representing the
associated lexicon, SKOS can greatly simplify this task. If, for instance,
the lexical repository (collection of Lexical Unique Identifier, each lexical
variant of a term getting one LUI) contained in UMLS were represented
according to SKOS, this would provide an extremely valuable resource to the
community of semantically-oriented bioinformatics researchers, as well as a
powerful tool to support latent semantic analysis or natural language
processing when linking to unstructured text.</p>
<p>The following are the collection of terminologies and ontologies being
linked into BIRNLex: Neuronames, Brainmap.org classification schemes, <a
href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a>, Gene Ontology, Reactome, OBI, PATO, Subcellular
Anatomy Ontology (CCDB - <a
href="http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/">http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/</a>), MeSH.</p>
<p>Neuronames concerns brain anatomy and is about 750 classes and thousands
of associated lexical variants. Brainmap.org classification includes
hierarchies to describe neuroanatomy, subject variables, stimulus conditions,
and experimental paradigms associated with functional MRI of the nervous
system The Subcellular Anatomy Ontology is designed to describe the
subcellular entities associated with ultrastructural and histological imaging
of neural tissue. Currently the application is only dealing with English
lexical entries.</p>
<p>BIRNLex curators are working with the National Center for Biomedical
Ontology (NCBO) to adopt the OBO Foundry recommendations in the construction
of BIRNLex. Use of SKOS elements can be useful, so that, for instance,
software applications can draw on "skos:prefLabel", "obo_annot:synonym",
"obo_annot:definition", etc.</p>
<p>The management of BIRNLex is currently done manually in Protege-OWL.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL">R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL</a></p>
<p>However, the ultimate goal is to adopt a client-server infrastructure that
will create an RDF-based backend store and support both curation of the
ontology and annotation using the ontology via Java Portlet-based
applications. BIRN has a core infrastructure staff dedicated to use of the
GridSphere Java Portlet implementation framework (<a
href="http://www.gridsphere.org">www.gridsphere.org</a>).</p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-RadLex">2.7 Use Case #7 — Radlex: a lexicon for radiology</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(contributed by Curt Langlotz. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRadlexDetailed"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRadlexDetailed</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>RadLex provides a structured vocabulary of terms used in the field of
radiology. Currently completed are listings of anatomic terms and "findings",
which includes things that can be seen on or inferred from images produced by
radiologists. These two sets include a total of about 7,500 terms. A list of
the terms used to describe the creation of such images, including information
about the equipment used and the various imaging sequences performed, will be
complete by the end of 2007.</p>
<p>An example application demonstrating functionality is an image annotation
program that reads in RadLex and provides users the ability to search for and
use particular RadLex terms to associate with images, post-coordinating them
if necessary. Users would want to be able to retrieve RadLex terms by name or
synonym.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</a>, <a
href="#R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts">R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts</a>,
<a href="#R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</a></p>
<p>RadLex, which can be searched and browsed online at <a
href="http://www.radlex.org">www.radlex.org</a>, is a taxonomy currently
built predominantly using is-a relations. But there are also part-of and
other relations (especially for anatomy), and new relations will be added as
RadLex expands. Each term has a rich set of metadata fields to include
provenance information and terminological data such as synonyms, definition,
and related terms from other vocabularies.</p>
<p>The practical fields include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Term name</li>
<li>ID number (with no inherent semantics)</li>
<li>parents, and their relation to the term</li>
<li>children, and their relation to the term</li>
</ul>
<p>and optionally, any</p>
<ul>
<li>mappings to other vocabularies</li>
<li>definition</li>
<li>synonyms</li>
<li>source (a reference publication which includes this term)</li>
<li>other comments (such as derivation of the term, special or preferred
uses of it, etc.)</li>
</ul>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</a>, <a
href="#R-AnnotationOnLabel">R-AnnotationOnLabel</a>, <a
href="#R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels">R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels</a>, <a
href="#R-LexicalMappingLinks">R-LexicalMappingLinks</a></p>
<p>The relationships used among terms include:</p>
<ul class="descriptions">
<li>Continuous with [DEF: Two structures are “continuous with” one
another if they are immediately adjacent and physically connected to one
another. This relationship is often used for cavitary and tubular
structures, such as the continuity between the left ventricle and the
aorta. This is a reflexive relation.]</li>
<li>Branch of [DEF: a smaller conduit is a “branch of” a larger conduit
if it is one of a group of two or more conduits that continue in the
direction of flow where only one conduits had existed before. It is
permissible for one of the continuing conduits to maintain the same name
of original conduits. This relation is often used with arteries.]</li>
<li>Branch [DEF: the converse relation to “branch of”]</li>
<li>Tributary of [DEF: a smaller conduit is a “tributary of” a larger
conduit if it is one of a group of two or more vessels that join to form
a single conduit in the direction of flow. This relation is often used
with veins. ]</li>
<li>Tributary [DEF: the converse relation to “tributary of”]</li>
<li>Part of [DEF: one object is “part of” another object if it
comprises less than all of the other object. This relation is often used
with solid body parts and organs.]</li>
<li>Segment of [DEF: one tubular structure is a “segment of” another if
it defines a part of that structure divided perpendicular to the axis of
the tube. This relation is often used to define the subparts of tubular
structures, such as arteries, veins, and intestines.</li>
<li>Part [DEF: the converse relation to “part of”]</li>
<li>Segment [DEF: the converse relation to “segment of”]</li>
<li>Contained_in [DEF: One structure is “contained in” another if the
first structure is inside the other. For example the liver is contained
in the abdominal cavity.]</li>
<li>Contains [DEF: the converse relation to “contained in”]</li>
<li>Is_a; Type of</li>
<li>Member of [DEF: One structure is a “member of” a set of structures.
For example, the “liver” is a member of the “set of viscera of
abdomen”]</li>
<li>Member [DEF: the converse relation to “member of”]</li>
<li>Synonym [DEF: the term is a less-preferred synonym of a preferred
term]</li>
</ul>
<p>For instance, “nervous system” has a part called “brain”, and
“nervous system” contains “nervous system spaces”. The view of the
hierarchy itself does not reveal the relationships among the terms; this
information is found within the term features, shown in this format on the
right-hand side. In this framework, the hierarchy is generated from the
different relationships among terms, using either SPARQL or a custom
interface to an application that consumes the terminology.</p>
<p>There are 9 separate hierarchies in the vocabulary: Treatment; Image
acquisition, Processing and Display; Modifier; Finding; Anatomic Location;
Uncertainty (to be renamed Certainty); Teaching Attribute; Relationship; and
Image Quality. There are currently no relations holding between terms in
different hierarchies, though this could be developed in future (e.g. linking
of particular Findings to potential Anatomic Locations).</p>
<p>The Radlex vocabulary is provided in English, with plans to include other
languages (e.g., German).</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-MultilingualLexicalInformation">R-MultilingualLexicalInformation</a></p>
<p>Protégé has been used to create a machine-readable version of the
vocabulary, which is available at <a
href="http://www.rsna.org/radlex/downloads.cfm">http://www.rsna.org/radlex/downloads.cfm</a>.
RadLex will be available in OWL-DL in the future.</p>
<p>Requires: <a
href="#R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL">R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL</a></p>
<p>During the design of the vocabulary, basic guidelines from Cimino and
Chute were used, such as ensuring that a term only corresponds to one
concept. As the terminology is being developed into a more structured form,
with more types of relationships, different parents are being allowed as long
as the relationship type is different. E.g. one IS-A parent, one PART-OF
parent, etc.</p>
<p>Potential changes in the vocabulary are submitted to the chair of the
RadLex Steering Committee of the Radiological Society of North America, who
consults with the relevant lexicon development committee. Accepted changes
are periodically incorporated into the vocabulary. The first release was made
public in November 2006.</p>
<p>Currently, a mapping is being developed between RadLex and the
corresponding terms/codes in SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine)
and the ACR (American College of Radiology) Index, the vocabularies that were
used as a starting point for terminology development.</p>
<p>From a representational point of view, this mapping shall consist of
equivalence and specialization links. Later, we expect people to compose
atomic terms (post-coordination) to describe composite entities.</p>
<p>Requires: <a href="#R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</a></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="UC-MetadataRegistry">2.8 Use Case #8 — NSDL Metadata Registry</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">(Contributed by Jon Phipps, Cornell
University. <br />
Complete description available at</span> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RucMetadataRegistryExtended"
style="font-size: 10pt">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RucMetadataRegistryExtended</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt">)</span></p>
<p>The NSDL Registry is intended to provide a complete vocabulary development
and management environment for development of controlled vocabularies.
Services are primarily directed at vocabulary owners and include provisions
for:</p>
<ul class="descriptions">
<li>managing access and editing rights for groups of vocabulary maintainers
maintaining individual vocabularies</li>
<li>import and management of existing vocabularies, with and without
existing URIs</li>
<li>namespace management and maintenance services providing permanent
URIs</li>
<li>registered users to receive notifications of changes to vocabularies to
which they have subscribed</li>
<li>content negotiation for retrieval of registered vocabularies in various
formats, currently RDF/XML (rdf), XHTML (html), and XML Schema (xsd)</li>
<li>content negotiation and resolution services for registered vocabularies
in non-registry namespaces (in alpha)</li>
<li>controlled concept editing and maintenance using SKOS properties</li>
<li>controlled editing of reciprocal relationships between concepts
(Requires: SKOS status property in order to manage reciprocal
endorsement)</li>
<li>controlled mapping of relationships between concepts in different
vocabularies. See <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RucMetadataRegistryExtended">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/RucMetadataRegistryExtended</a>.
(Requires: <a
href="#R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</a>)</li>
<li>concept-level change history management (Requires: URI content
negotiation and http 301/302 redirection)</li>
<li>vocabulary- and concept-level version management (in alpha)</li>
<li>multilingual vocabulary maintenance (Requires: the ability to manage
concept equivalence between vocabularies in different languages and
intra-concept language-related equivalence between concept properties in
multiple languages)</li>
<li>skos validation by user input constraint and validation of imported
vocabularies (Requires: <a
href="#R-ConsistencyChecking">R-ConsistencyChecking</a>)</li>
<li>search and browse for concepts by label</li>
</ul>
<p>The registry currently has a number of vocabularies registered. A sample
entry of a vocabulary/scheme and a single concept are shown below (taken from
<a
href="http://metadataregistry.org/uri/NSDLEdLvl.html">http://metadataregistry.org/uri/NSDLEdLvl.html</a>):</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Scheme</td>
<td>NSDLEdLvl</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>NSDL Education Level Vocabulary</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Owner</td>
<td>National Science Digital Library</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Community</td>
<td>Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>URL</td>
<td>http://metamanagement.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VocabDevel</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p></p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<caption></caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Concept</td>
<td>NSDLEdLvl/1023</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Label</td>
<td>Middle School</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Top Concept</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Status</td>
<td>published</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>history note</td>
<td>Term source: http://www.ed.gov</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>has narrower</td>
<td>Grade 6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>has narrower</td>
<td>Grade 7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>has broader</td>
<td>Grades Pre-K to 12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>alternative label</td>
<td>Junior High School</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p></p>
<hr />
<h3 id="Other">2.9 Other use cases</h3>
<p>The SWD Working Group maintains on its wiki site the complete list of
descriptions that were received following its call for use cases:</p>
<ul class="descriptions">
<li id="UC-Tgn">Geographical web service for hierarchical browsing
(contributed by Walter Koch). <br />
Summed up description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucTgn">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucTgn</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-TacticalSituationObject">Representation of Tactical Situation
Objects (contributed by Sean Barker). <br />
Summed up description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucTacticalSituationObject">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucTacticalSituationObject</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-GtaaBrowser">GTAA Web Browser (contributed by Véronique
Malaisé and Hennie Brugman). <br />
Summed up description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucGtaaBrowser">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucGtaaBrowser</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Obi">Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI) for for
describing methods in biomedical research (contributed by Trish Whetzel).
<br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucObiDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucObiDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-StarDust">The STAR:dust conceptual model (contributed by Irene
Celino, Emanuele Della Valle and Francesco Corcoglioniti). <br />
Summed up description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucStarDust">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucStarDust</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-UDC">UDC: the Universal Decimal Classification (contributed by
Antoine Isaac and Aida Slavic). <br />
Description for motivating <a
href="#R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</a> available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucUDC">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucUDC</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Rameau">the RAMEAU subject heading language (contributed by
Antoine Isaac). <br />
Description for motivating <a
href="#R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</a> available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRameau">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucRameau</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-XMDR">XMDR: Extended Metadata Registry Prototype (contributed by
John McCarthy). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucXmdrDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucXmdrDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Hilt">High-level Thesaurus (HILT) Project (contributed by George
Macgregor). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucHiltDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucHiltDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-SeaLife">A Semantic Grid Browser for the Life Sciences Applied
to the study of Infectious Diseases (contributed by Simon Jupp). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSeaLifeDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSeaLifeDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-PersonalizedTv">Semantic-based Framework for Personalized TV
Content Management in a cross-media environment (contributed by Pieter
Bellekens). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucPersonalizedTvDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucPersonalizedTvDetailed</a></li>
<li id="UC-IntraLibrary">intraLibrary: Support for web-based Repository of
Learning Objects (contributed by Sarah Currier). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucIntraLibraryDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucIntraLibraryDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Hanavi">Hybrid and Network-Assisted Vocabulary Interface
(HANAVI) and Japan National Diet Library List of Subject Headings (NDLSH)
(contributed by Mitsuharu Nagamori). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucHanaviDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucHanaviDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Squiggle">Squiggle: an application framework for model-driven
development of real-world Semantic Search Engines (contributed by Irene
Celino). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSquiggleDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSquiggleDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-OpenHypermedia">Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service (COHSE)
(contributed by Sean Bechhofer). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucCohseDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucCohseDetailed</a>.</li>
<li id="UC-Swed">The Semantic Web Environmental Directory (SWED)
(contributed by Alistair Miles). <br />
Detailed description available at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSwedDetailed">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/EucSwedDetailed</a>.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2 id="Requirements">3 Requirements</h2>
<p>The use cases presented in the previous section motivate a number of
requirements that the SKOS specification must or should meet in order to
fulfill its aim as a standard model for porting simple concept schemes on the
semantic web. Depending on the level of consensus reached in the Working
Group, these requirements were categorized into <em>accepted</em> and
<em>candidate</em> requirements. </p>
<p>This document reflects decisions that were made just after having received
the use cases, at the beginning of 2007. The requirements were subsequently
examined as <em>issues</em> by the Working Group, which decided on actions to
take—or not—in order to close them. The final status of the issues
mentioned in this document is accessible via the <em>SWD Issue Tracker</em>,
at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues">http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues</a>.</p>
<p>Note: in the following, to avoid ambiguities, <em>vocabulary</em> will be
used to refer to the <em>SKOS vocabulary</em>, that is, the set of constructs
(classes, properties) introduced in the SKOS model. <em>Concept Scheme</em>
will be used to refer to the objects built with SKOS, i.e. the
application-specific collections of concepts that are mentioned in SKOS use
cases.</p>
<hr />
<h3 id="Accepted">3.1 Accepted requirements</h3>
<dl>
<dt id="R-ConceptualRelations">R-ConceptualRelations</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConceptualRelations'>Representation of relationships between concepts</h5>
The SKOS model shall provide semantic relationships between concepts,
for display or search purposes. Typical examples are the hierarchical
relations <em>broader than</em> (BT), <em>narrower than</em> (NT) and
the non-hierarchical associative relation <em>related to</em> (RT).
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-Tgn">Tgn</a>, <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">ProductLifeCycleSupport</a>, <a
href="#UC-RankingForDescription">RankingForDescription</a>, etc.</p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-ConceptSchemeExtension">R-ConceptSchemeExtension</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConceptSchemeExtension'>Extension of concept schemes</h5>
A concept scheme might be locally extended with new concepts referring
to existing ones, e.g. as specializations of these.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a>, <a
href="#UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">ProductLifeCycleSupport</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-ConceptualMappingLinks">R-ConceptualMappingLinks</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConceptualMappingLinks'>Correspondence/Mapping links between concepts from different
concept schemes</h5>
In order to build links between concepts coming from different concept
schemes, SKOS should provide proper semantic relationships. Possible
links, similarly to the ones found existing SKOS and SKOS mapping
[<cite><a href="#SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING">SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING</a></cite>]
vocabularies, include concept equivalence and
specialization/generalization relations.
<p><strong>M</strong><strong>otivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">ProductLifeCycleSupport</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a>, <a
href="#UC-MetadataRegistry">MetadataRegistry</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issues</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/39">39</a>, <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/71">71</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-LabelRepresentation">R-LabelRepresentation</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-LabelRepresentation'>Representation of basic lexical values (labels) associated to
concepts</h5>
The SKOS model shall provide means to represent the labels (preferred
or not) of a concept, for display or search purposes.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-Tgn">Tgn</a>, <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-RankingForDescription">RankingForDescription</a>, etc.</p>
</dd>
<dt
id="R-MultilingualLexicalInformation">R-MultilingualLexicalInformation</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-MultilingualLexicalInformation'>Representation of lexical information in multiple natural
languages</h5>
The lexical information specified in concept schemes (labels, but also
definitions and notes) could come in different natural languages. A
typical example is the case of a multilingual concept scheme with
concepts having labels translated in several languages.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a> , <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>,
<a href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-SkosSpecialization">R-SkosSpecialization</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-SkosSpecialization'>Local specialization of SKOS vocabulary</h5>
For particular situations, the designer of a SKOS concept scheme should
be able to introduce new model-level classes and properties, and link
them to existing SKOS constructs. Possible cases include the creation
of specific kinds of textual definitions or notes for concepts, or the
specification of new types of concepts.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-Tgn">Tgn</a>, <a
href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a href="#UC-Biozen">Biozen</a>, <a
href="#UC-RankingForDescription">RankingForDescription</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/37">37</a></p>
</dd>
<dt
id="R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts">R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-TextualDescriptionsForConcepts'>Representation of textual descriptions attached to concepts</h5>
The SKOS model shall provide means to represent descriptive notes that
could help understanding the elements of concept schemes, e.g. scope
notes explaining the way concepts are used to describe documents.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-ProductLifeCycleSupport">ProductLifeCycleSupport</a>, <a
href="#UC-TacticalSituationObject">TacticalSituationObject</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLexDetailed</a>, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/64">64</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<hr />
<h3 id="Candidate">3.2 Candidate requirements</h3>
<dl>
<dt id="R-AnnotationOnLabel">R-AnnotationOnLabel</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-AnnotationOnLabel'>Ability to represent annotations on lexical items</h5>
Labels, which are currently modeled as literals in SKOS, as well as
possibly other literals, are valid subjects of discourse when modeling
concept schemes, e.g. when recording the dates during which a
particular label was in common use. However, in RDF only resources may
be subjects of statements, and literals may only be objects of
statements. The question then arises, how are we to annotate labels and
other literals, that is to relate them as subjects, to other entities.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/27">27</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-CompatibilityWithDC">R-CompatibilityWithDC</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-CompatibilityWithDC'>Compatibility between SKOS and Dublin Core Abstract Model</h5>
Using SKOS model shall be compatible with using Dublin Core Abstract
Model [<cite><a href="#DCAM">DCAM</a></cite>]. When there are links
between SKOS features and Dublin Core ones, these shall be specified.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/50">50</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-CompatibilityWithISO11179">R-CompatibilityWithISO11179</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-CompatibilityWithISO11179'>Compatibility between SKOS and ISO11179[Part 3]</h5>
SKOS model shall be compatible with part 3 of ISO 11179 specifications
[<cite><a href="#ISO11179-3">ISO11179-3</a></cite>].
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/51">51</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-CompatibilityWithISO2788">R-CompatibilityWithISO2788</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-CompatibilityWithISO2788'>Compatibility between SKOS and ISO2788</h5>
SKOS model shall be compatible with ISO 2788 specifications [<cite><a
href="#ISO2788">ISO2788</a></cite>].
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/52">52</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-CompatibilityWithISO5964">R-CompatibilityWithISO5964</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-CompatibilityWithISO5964'>Compatibility between SKOS and ISO5964</h5>
SKOS model shall be compatible with ISO 5964 specifications [<cite><a
href="#ISO5964">ISO5964</a></cite>].
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/53">53</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL">R-CompatibilityWithOWL-DL</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-CompatibilityWithOWL'>OWL-DL compatibility</h5>
SKOS should provide a legal OWL-DL ontology, to be compatible with most
common editors and reasoners.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-Biozen">Biozen</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a>, <a href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/38">38</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-ConceptCoordination">R-ConceptCoordination</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConceptCoordination'>Coordination of concepts</h5>
SKOS should provide the ability to create new concepts from existing
ones, e.g. by using special qualifiers that add a shade of meaning to a
normal concept.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a
href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a>, <a href="#UC-UDC">UDC</a>, <a
href="#UC-Rameau">Rameau</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/40">40</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-ConceptSchemeContainment">R-ConceptSchemeContainment</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConceptSchemeContainment'>Ability to explicitly represent the containment of any SKOS
individual or statement within a concept scheme</h5>
It shall be possible to explicitly represent the containment of any
individual which is an instance of a SKOS class (e.g. skos:Concept) or
statement that uses SKOS property as predicate (e.g. skos:broader)
within a concept scheme.
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/36">36</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-ConsistencyChecking">R-ConsistencyChecking</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-ConsistencyChecking'>Checking the consistency of a concept scheme</h5>
Some SKOS applications might require testing the integrity of their
concept scheme data. For example, conceptual relationships should only
apply to individuals of type skos:Concept, and not for example between
the (non-preferred) labels of concepts.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-GtaaBrowser">GtaaBrowser</a>, <a
href="#UC-MetadataRegistry">MetadataRegistry</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/35">35</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-GroupingInConceptHierarchies">R-GroupingInConceptHierarchies</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-GroupingInConceptHierarchies'>Ability to include grouping constructs in concept hierarchies in
thesauri</h5>
Concept schemes can contain elements (<em>arrays</em>, <em>guide
terms</em>, etc.) used to group normal concepts together, e.g. based on
a shared semantic property. While these special elements cannot be used
for description purposes, they can be introduced in a concept scheme's
hierarchy by means of generalization and specialization links.
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/33">33</a></p>
</dd>
<dt
id="R-IndexingAndNonIndexingConcepts">R-IndexingAndNonIndexingConcepts</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-IndexingAndNonIndexingConcepts'>Ability to distinguish between concepts to be used for indexing
and for non-indexing</h5>
SKOS should provide different classes for conceptual entities that can
be used for indexing resources and for those that cannot be used for
such a purpose (e.g. specific qualifiers that can only be used to
narrow down the meaning of an existing concept).</dd>
<dd><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-UDC">UDC</a>, <a
href="#UC-Rameau">Rameau</a>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/46">46</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-IndexingRelationship">R-IndexingRelationship</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-IndexingRelationship'>Ability to represent the indexing relationship between a resource
and a concept that indexes it</h5>
The SKOS model should contain mechanisms to attach a given resource
(e.g. corresponding to a document) to a concept the resource is about,
e.g. to query for the resources described by a given concept.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a
href="#UC-Biozen">Biozen</a>, <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/48">48</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-LexicalMappingLinks">R-LexicalMappingLinks</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-LexicalMappingLinks'>Correspondence mapping links between lexical labels of concepts
in different concept schemes</h5>
In the process of mapping different concept schemes, it should be
possible to identify correspondence links not only between concepts
from these concept schemes, but also between the labels that can be
attached to these concepts.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a>, <a
href="#UC-BirnLex">BirnLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/49">49</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-MappingProvenanceInformation">R-MappingProvenanceInformation</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-MappingProvenanceInformation'>Ability to record provenance information on mappings between
concepts in different concept schemes</h5>
It shall be possible to record provenance information on mappings
between concepts in different concept schemes.
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/47">47</a></p>
<p>Motivation: <a href="#UC-MetadataRegistry">MetadataRegistry</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels">R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels</dt>
<dd><h5 id='_R-RelationshipsBetweenLabels'>Representation of links between labels associated to concepts</h5>
The SKOS model shall provide means to represent relationships between
the terms associated with concepts. Typical examples are translation
links between labels from different languages, or the link between one
label and its abbreviation, when this stands for an alternative label
for the concept.
<p><strong>Motivation</strong>: <a
href="#UC-Manuscripts">Manuscripts</a>, <a href="#UC-Aims">Aims</a>, <a
href="#UC-RadLex">RadLex</a></p>
<p><strong>Corresponding issue</strong>: <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/26">26</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<hr />
<h2 id="Conclusion">4 Conclusion</h2>
<p>To elicit the requirements that a new version of the Simple Knowledge
Organization System (SKOS) should meet, the Semantic Web and Deployment
Working Group has issued a call for use cases to the different communities
that are concerned by the use of SKOS.</p>
<p>More than 25 submissions have been sent to the working group, which
illustrates the variety of usages one can make of such a proposal. In this
document, eight of them were selected as being the most representative.</p>
<p>Some of these use cases have come with very high-quality descriptions, and
most correspond to development efforts that are presently being carried out,
going therefore beyond pure research hypotheses. This has given a sound basis
for the process of gathering requirements for SKOS, which the second part of
this document describes.</p>
<p>Requirements were divided into accepted and candidate requirements,
reflecting the level of consensus they had reached in the Working Group at
the time this document was first created (16 May 2007). In the following
months, the Working Group had to make a final decision regarding the
candidate requirements, either accepting them or rejecting them. It of course
had then to adapt the existing SKOS material so that it could meet the
accepted requirements.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="References">References</h2>
<dl>
<dt><a name="DCAM" id="DCAM">[DCAM]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/">DCMI
Abstract Model</a></cite>, A. Powell, M. Nilsson, A. Naeve, P.
Johnston, 7 March 2005.</dd>
<dt><a name="ISO11179-3" id="ISO11179-3">[ISO11179-3]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a href="http://metadata-standards.org/11179/#A3">ISO/IEC
11179-3: 2003(E)</a></cite>, Information Technology – Metadata
Registries (MDR) – Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes,
Second edition. R. Gates, Editor, 15 February 2003.</dd>
<dt><a name="ISO2788" id="ISO2788">[ISO2788]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a
href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=7776">ISO
2788:1986</a></cite> Documentation - Guidelines for the establishment
and development of monolingual thesauri. Second edition. ISO TC 46/SC
9, 1986.</dd>
<dt><a name="ISO5964" id="ISO5964">[ISO5964]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a
href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=12159">ISO
5964:1985</a></cite> Documentation - Guidelines for the establishment
and development of multilingual thesauri. First edition. ISO TC 46/SC
9, 1985.</dd>
<dt><a id="SKOS-REFERENCE">[SKOS-REFERENCE]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-skos-reference-20090818">SKOS
Reference</a></cite>, Alistair Miles, Sean Bechhofer, Editors, W3C
Recommendation, 18 August 2009. <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference"
title="Latest version of SKOS Reference">Latest version</a> available
at http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference .</dd>
<dt><a name="SWBP-SKOS-CORE-GUIDE"
id="SWBP-SKOS-CORE-GUIDE">[SWBP-SKOS-CORE-GUIDE]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102">SKOS
Core Guide</a></cite>, A. Miles, D. Brickley, Editors, W3C Working
Draft (superseded), 2 November 2005. Available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102.</dd>
<dt><a name="SWBP-SKOS-CORE-SPEC"
id="SWBP-SKOS-CORE-SPEC">[SWBP-SKOS-CORE-SPEC]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102">SKOS
Core Vocabulary Specification</a></cite>, A. Miles, D. Brickley,
Editors, W3C Working Draft (superseded), 2 November 2005.
Available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102.</dd>
<dt><a name="SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING"
id="SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING">[SWBP-SKOS-MAPPING]</a></dt>
<dd><cite><a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/mapping/spec/2004-11-11.html">SKOS
Mapping Vocabulary Specification</a></cite>, A. Miles, D. Brickley,
Editors, W3C Working Draft (superseded), 11 November 2004.
Available at
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/mapping/spec/2004-11-11.html.</dd>
<dt><a id="SWBPD" name="SWBPD">[SWBPD]</a></dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/"><cite>The Semantic
Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group</cite></a>,
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/.</dd>
<dt><a id="SWD" name="SWD">[SWD]</a></dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/"><cite>The Semantic Web
Deployment Working Group</cite></a>,
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/.</dd>
<dt><a id="SWD-Charter" name="SWD-Charter">[SWD-Charter]</a></dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/swdwg-charter"><cite>Semantic Web
Deployment Working Group (SWDWG) Charter</cite></a>,
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/swdwg-charter.</dd>
</dl>
<hr />
<h2 id="Acknowledgments">Acknowledgments</h2>
<p>The editors gratefully acknowledge contributions from Lora Aroyo, Hugh
Barnes, Bruce Bargmeyer, Sean Barker, Sean Bechhofer, Pieter Bellekens,
Hennie Brugman, Dario Cerizza, Irene Celino, Thierry Cloarec, Francesco
Corcoglioniti, Sarah Currier, Emanuele Della Valle, Diane Hillmann, Chris
Holmes, Bernard Horan, Julian Johnson, Simon Jupp, Johannes Keizer, Walter
Koch, Véronique Malaisé, George Macgregor, Frédéric Martin, John
McCarthy, Emma McCulloch, Alistair Miles, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Dennis
Nicholson, Matthias Samwald, Margherita Sini, Aida Slavic, Davide
Sommacampagna, Robert Stevens, Doug Tudhope, Andrea Turati, Bernard Vatant,
Anna Veronesi.</p>
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