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

computer science miscellaneous ontology w3c rec

Links

Homepage OWL RDF

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

prefLabel   Resolve

Example CURIE

skos:prefLabel

Contact

Alistair Miles   alimanfoo

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

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

In Collection (5)

Semantic Web Context NFDI4Culture Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Objects Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

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. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.