SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. 1. Introduction 1.1. Background and Motivation The Simple Knowledge Organization System is a data-sharing standard, bridging several different fields of knowledge, technology and practice. In the library and information sciences, a long and distinguished heritage is devoted to developing tools for organizing large collections of objects such as books or museum artifacts. The W3C's Semantic Web Activity [SW] has stimulated a new field of integrative research and technology development, at the boundaries between database systems, formal logic and the World Wide Web. These technologies are being applied across diverse applications, because many applications require a common framework for publishing, sharing, exchanging and integrating ("joining up") data from different sources.
One facet of the Semantic Web vision is the hope of better organizing the vast amounts of unstructured (i.e., human-readable) information in the Web, providing new routes to discovering and sharing that information. ICOPER - Interoperable Content for Performance in a Competency-driven Society. ASPECT News and Events | Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content. ICOPER Best Practice Network — iCOPER project.
Organisation internationale de normalisation.