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Lucene + SKOS = Search + thesaurus. SKOS. Skoseditor - SKOSEd - Thesaurus editor for the Semantic Web. The Semantic Puzzle | Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine. Looking for high quality enterprise vocabularies we recently turned our attention to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which is an industry taxonomyTaxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word finds its roots in the Greek τάξις, taxis (meaning 'order' or 'arrangement') and νόμος, nomos (meaning 'law' or 'science').

Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa. In addition, the word is also used as a count noun: ... designed to categorize any private company. It was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s and is mainly used by the global financial community to aid in the investment research process. It is available for download as .xls spreadsheet files in several languages.

I chose to try Google Refine for this task, as recently a promising RDF extension had been released by DERI‘s Fadi Maali and Richard Cyganiak. Google Refine UI Editing the RDF Sekeleton GICS loaded in PoolParty. SkosDev/ToolShed - ESW Wiki. Xml2skos - xml2skos produces SKOS thesauri out of XML or HTML files/websites. Skosify - a tool for converting RDFS/OWL/SKOS vocabularies into proper SKOS format. Skosify is a tool that can be used to convert vocabularies expressed as RDFS and OWL into SKOS.

It can also be used to improve, enrich and validate existing SKOS vocabularies. See GettingStarted in the wiki for documentation. An online version of the tool is available, which can be used to perform validation and correction. The online version does not yet support all the options available in Skosify. The current version of Skosify, version 1.0, was released on 14 January 2014. See the release announcement and release notes. You can download the file using the Downloads tab. Use the Issues tab to report problems or request enhancements.

Skosify has originally been developed in the FinnONTO projects at the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) at Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland. For publications and contact information, see the home page of Skosify at the SeCo website. Owltoskos - A tool to convert OWL ontologies into SKOS terminologies. Agrovoc-cs-workbench - VocBench - Online vocabulary editing and workflow tool. This site hosts the LEGACY 1.x versions of VocBench (a.k.a. "The Workbench", "CS WorkBench", "AOS", "Agricultural Ontology Server" or "ACSW"), a web-based, multilingual, vocabulary editing and workflow tool. The new main site of VocBench2.0 is: To view our current VB2.x development, please go to: Originally created to manage AGROVOC, a multi-lingual thesaurus with 32000 concepts in up to 22 languages, it now hosts an ever-expanding set of vocabularies.

Users can register and become trusted editors with admin approval. VB 1.3 Production Release Access the Production Version 1.3 (account required). VB 1.3 Sandbox Release Access the Sandbox Version 1.3 (common account) Use this version if you want to have a sandbox in which to discover VocBench functionalities using AGROVOC as of February 2013. Recommended browser for all versions is Safari, Chrome, Mozilla.

Plain SQL representation(s) of SKOS from Simon Spero on 2009-06-26 (public-esw-thes from June 2009) Exploitation RAMEAU WebSémantique.