This is a part of Multilingual terminology extracted from Conseil International des Archives - Comité de Sigillographie: Vocabulaire Internationale de la Sigillographie, Roma 1990 (Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, Sussidi 3) (http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/dga/uploads/documents/Sussidi/Sussidi_3_A.pdf ) converted into a simple SKOS file. It is meant to serve as a starting point for a formal ontology of sigillography enhancing the knowledge of those experts who created VIS. The initial file is accessible in the GAMS digital archive at Graz university: http://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vis .

The VisSkos.xml represents the information created by the Comité de Sigilllographie. Any changes should represent information found as well in the 1990 printed edition of the VIS. VISplus.skos.xml is the living document adding new concepts, creating new definitions, changing hierarchy etc.