Why We Want to Publish Controlled Vocabulary in SKOS?

1. Why We Want to Publish Controlled
Vocabulary in SKOS?
GAMECIP Advisory Meeting
July 2, 2014
Peter Chan, Digital Archivist

3. LCSH for Game Console not
Adequate.
Can’t find Good Controlled
Vocabularies for Video Game
Console with Open License.

4. Request Update on LCSH.
Not a Quick Process.
LC not necessarily has the
expertise.

5. Publish our Own List!
What should the
Features of Such
System?

6. www.stanford.edu/uri/gameconsole/12345
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atari-2600-Wood-4Sw-Set.jpg

7. Atari Video Game System
Atari 2600
Atari VCS
Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade
Sears Video Arcade
Sears Tele-Game Video Arcade II
Atari 2800
Atari Jr.

8. ニンテンドーDS
Nintendo DS 任天堂DS
닌텐도 DS

9. Interface for human to search and
browse.
Machines interface for other
program to interact.
Follow Standards!!

12. SKOS
Simple Knowledge Organization System
Scope: knowledge organization systems (KOS) such
as thesauri, classification systems, subject
heading lists…
SKOS is for representing KOSs in RDF in a simple way
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

13. Concepts and labels
cats
UF (used for) domestic cats
skos: = http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
rdf: = http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
ex: = http://example.org/
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

14. Note: multilingual labels
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

15. Semantic relations
cats
RT (related term) wildcats
BT (broader term) animals
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

16. A SKOS graph
animals
cats
UF domestic cats
RT wildcats
BT animals
SN used only for domestic cats
domestic cats
USE cats
wildcats
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

17. SKOS mappings
SKOS allows bridging across KOSs from different
contexts
KOS 1:
animals
cats
wildcats
KOS 2:
animal
human
object
SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

19. Software to Create SKOS
• SKOSjs
• SKOS Editor

22. Platform to Publish SKOS
• Linked Media Framework
• Apache Marmotta

24. Services to Publish SKOS
• Open Metadata Registry
• Poolparty, Inc.

31. Open Metadata Registry
• Human Interface (Search and Browse)
• Download (can be used in auto complete
when assigning metadata)
• Machine Interface – SPARQL Endpoint

32. 4 Parties to make Game Console SKOS
Successful
• Librarians / Archivists to provide expertise in
constructing controlled vocabularies.
• Game researchers to provided expertise in the
subject matter (game console).
• Programmers/System Administrators to setup
the platform.
• Institutions/Metadata distributors to use the
SKOS.

33. SKOS Too Simple
Video game consoles have CPU,
joystick, track-ball, keypad, paddles,
floppy disk drive, cassette tape player,
ROM, RAM, hard drive, video card,
manufacturer, release date, third party
extensions………………….., etc.

34. SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization
System
• One of the use cases: Librarians Cataloging
videos games.
• Game researchers who want to know more
about game consoles need other tools
– Create an ontology of game consoles.

35. Introduction to OWL – Matthew Horridge

36. Introduction to OWL – Matthew Horridge

48. Future Works
• Other Controlled Vocabularies
• More Elaborate Ontology for Game
Console