Software for Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems#

Main use cases#

• creation: top-down and/or bottom-up collection of concepts with their labels and translations;
• organisation: linking concepts together (hierarchies, related) and linking concepts and data (indexing);
• distribution: push/pull the Knowledge Organisation System to/by the applications and their users;
• search: by words, along links;
• applications: using the information is more and more "social": users may enrich the original knowledge and track how evolutions are accepted by the community.

Applications:#

DSpace#

JSPWiki#

GraphViz#

A fantastic drawing software! Now integrated in ASKOSI...

Jaxe#

• ConceptScheme XSD
• Jaxe Layout for ConceptScheme

Protégé#

RDF Browser : Quick and Dirty RDF browser by University of Southampton#

Java modules:#

JAXB#

Direct XML marshalling and unmarshalling of ConceptScheme and Concept classes (ConceptScheme XSD).

Apache Cayenne#

Integrating SQL Databases and Java development.

Apache Click#

Well structured development of efficient Web applications.

Jersey (JSR 311):#

REST Interface for Create/Retrieve/Update/Delete of concepts and concepts maintenance workflow.

OpenRDF Sesame and AliBaba:#

• We use their SparQL client
• Following this article, Sesame can store information about RDF Statements and be used to query about meta-metadata: information about UPDATING RDF statements (or SKOS statements).

Simile Exhibit#

Following this message it is interesting to see how to parameterize SIMILE to browse SKOS/RDF files

Crawler4J#

It may be interesting to crawl specific websites and record which Concepts are referred by which pages and make this accessible in ASKOSI Concept usage displays. A Thesaurus driven index of specific sites...