NKOS is devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems/services (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet.
Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS) model the underlying semantic structure of a domain. Embodied as Web-based services, they can facilitate resource discovery and retrieval. They act as semantic road maps and make possible a common orientation by indexers and future users (whether human or machine). -- Douglas Tudhope, Traugott Koch (2004).
nkosA provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier alignedWith is used to demonstrate the providers
available for Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services/Structures. A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services/Structures | nkos |
http://w3id.org/nkos/alignedWith |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/nkos:alignedWith |