SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web

Prefix
skos
Preferred Prefix
skos
Keywords
ontology subject agnostic w3c rec
Links
Homepage OWL RDF
Contact
Alistair Miles   0000-0001-9018-4680   alimanfoo
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
prefLabel   Resolve
Example CURIE
skos:prefLabel
Contributors
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection
Semantic Web Context
Metaregistry Simple Knowledge Organization System

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl skos
BioContext biocontext skos
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.48e326
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov skos
OLS Ontology Lookup Service logo ols skos
Zazuko Zazuko Prefix Server logo zazuko skos
Providers

A 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 prefLabel is used to demonstrate the providers available for Simple Knowledge Organization System. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Simple Knowledge Organization System skos http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/skos:prefLabel