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How PoolParty and ISO 25964 fit together
We are frequently asked whether PoolParty is compatible with ISO 25964. Our basic answer always is “Yes, of course” as the data model defined in the standard can be mapped to SKOS + SKOS-XL.
How the PoolParty Semantic Suite is learning to speak 40+ languages
Business is becoming more and more globalised, and enterprises and organisations are acting in several different regions and thus facing more challenges of different cultural aspects as well as respective
Using SPARQL clause VALUES in PoolParty
Since PoolParty fully supports SPARQL 1.1 functionalities you can use clauses like VALUES. The VALUES clause can be used to provide an unordered solution sequence that is joined with the results
Thoughts on KOS (Part 3): Trends in knowledge organization
The accelerating pace of change in the economic, legal and social environment combined with tendencies towards increased decentralization of organizational structures have had a profound impact on the way we
Thoughts on KOS (Part 2): Classifying Knowledge Organisation Systems
Traditional KOSs include a broad range of system types from term lists to classification systems and thesauri. These organization systems vary in functional purpose and semantic expressivity. Most of these
Thoughts on KOS (Part1): Getting to grips with “semantic” interoperability
Enabling and managing interoperability at the data and the service level is one of the strategic key issues in networked knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and a growing issue in effective
Thoughts on KOS (Part1): Getting to grips with "semantic" interoperability
Enabling and managing interoperability at the data and the service level is one of the strategic key issues in networked knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and a growing issue in effective
From Taxonomies over Ontologies to Knowledge Graphs
With the rise of linked data and the semantic web, concepts and terms like ‘ontology’, ‘vocabulary’, ‘thesaurus’ or ‘taxonomy’ are being picked up frequently by information managers, search engine specialists or data engineers
American Physical Society Taxonomy – Case Study
Taxonomy Strategies has been working with the American Physical Society (APS) to develop a new faceted classification scheme. The proposed scheme includes several discrete sets of categories called facets whose
Online checker for SKOS vocabularies now available
Create better SKOS vocabularies PoolParty team likes to announce the availability of the new online vocabulary quality checker for SKOS vocabularies. It finds over 20 kinds of potential quality problems