Knoodl. Simple Knowledge Organization System. History[edit] DESIRE II project (1997–2000)[edit] The most direct ancestor to SKOS was the RDF Thesaurus work undertaken in the second phase of the EU DESIRE project [1][citation needed].
Motivated by the need to improve the user interface and usability of multi-service browsing and searching,[2] a basic RDF vocabulary for Thesauri was produced. As noted later in the SWAD-Europe workplan, the DESIRE work was adopted and further developed in the SOSIG and LIMBER projects. A version of the DESIRE/SOSIG implementation was described in W3C's QL'98 workshop, motivating early work on RDF rule and query languages: A Query and Inference Service for RDF.[3] SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System - home page.
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 ...
[read more] Alignment between SKOS and new ISO 25964 thesaurus standard (2012-12-13) The Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition System.