KOS generation, reuse, connection, integration, and mapping

SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY

Notes and bookmarks

Refer to the full article: Zeng, Marcia L. "Interoperability" @ ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO) 2018-08-08

HOME || KOS CASES || MAPPING|| TERMINOLOGY SERVICES

Terminology Services

WHERE to locate interoperable KOS vocabularies: Repositories & Registries.

1. Vocabulary repositories

Vocabulary repositories are services hosting full content of a KOS vocabulary as well as the management data for each component updated regularly on time.

• Individual vocabulary’s provider:
  • EuroVoc (http://eurovoc.europa.eu/)
    
    
• Individual institution as the provider of all vocabularies produced in the institution:
  • EU Vocabularies (https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies)
  • Library of Congress Linked Data Services – Authorities and Vocabularies (http://id.loc.gov/)
    • - Subject Schemes https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/subjectSchemes.html
  • Getty LOD Vocab (http://vocab.getty.edu/)
    
    
• Unified portal for KOS vocabularies across domains:
  • FINTO, The Finnish thesaurus and ontology service (http://finto.fi/en/)
  • Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index)
  • Taxobank: (http://www.taxobank.org/)
    
    
• Domain-oriented portal for collected vocabularies produced by multiple units:
  • BioPortal (http://www.bioportal.bioontology.org).
  • Ontobee (biomedical) (http://www.ontobee.org/)
  • Planteome (plants) (http://planteome.org/)
  • Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) (biomedical) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/index)
  • GFBio terminology service (biological) (https://terminologies.gfbio.org/)
  • Heritage Data (cultural heritage) (http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/vocabularies-provided/)
    
  • ... ...
  • See more in the OntoPortal Alliance:https://ontoportal.org/
    • Including AgroPortal, MedPortal, MatPoral, EcoPortal, IndustryPortal, etc.
      
      
• Middleware that provides tools for end-users to use/reuse published vocabularies:
  • Skosprovider (http://skosprovider.readthedocs.io)
  • Examples: vocabularies published by EH, Getty Vocabularies, RCAHMS and RCAHMW http://heritagedata.org
    
    
• Upper ontology that facilitates multiple vocabularies’ concept- and entity-mapping:
  • Linked Open Ontology cloud KOKO (https://finto.fi/koko/en/)
  • Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer (UMBEL, http://umbel.org/)

2. Vocabulary registries

Vocabulary registries offer information about vocabularies (i.e., metadata).

• Registry of KOS vocabularies:
  • BARTOC (Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications) (https://bartoc.org)
    
    
• Registry of any vocabularies that are published with Semantic Web languages:
  • LOV (Linked Open Vocabularies, https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/)
    
    
• Registry of any LOD products, including KOS vocabs:
  • DataHub’s (https://old.datahub.io/dataset)
  • The Ontohub (https://github.com/ontohub/ontohub)
    
    
• List of KOS vocabularies in a domain
  • Conservation controlled vocabularies (https://www.ligatus.org.uk/lcd/controlled-vocabularies)

Explore more

Refer to the full article:

Zeng, Marcia Lei. 2019. “Interoperability”. Knowledge Organization 46, no. 2: 122-146. Also available in Hjørland, Birger and Gnoli, Claudio eds. ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization, http://www.isko.org/cyclo/interoperability

---

Developed by Marcia L. Zeng, 2019 for research and educational purposes. Last updated 2023-06.