Ontologies Thesauri Vocabularies

(mentioning not-so-common features used)

• YSO

• STW Thesaurus for Economics

  • Existing versions as RDFa and downloadable files (http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/8.04/download, resp. http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/download)
  • Concept and scheme URIs are redirected to the current versions RDFa page in the preferred user language (http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/14608-4 redirects to http://zbw.eu/stw/versions/8.10/descriptor/14608-4/about.de.html)
  • Deprecated concepts (merged into others - e.g., http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/12257-3)
  • Concept subtypes (e.g, http://zbw.eu/namespaces/zbw-extensions/Descriptor) (special treatment for these should be considered out of scope here)
  • Systematic part (classification of descriptors, using notations)
  • special notes http://zbw.eu/namespaces/zbw-extensions/useInsteadNote (blank nodes should be considered out of scope here)

• TheSoz Thesaurus for the Social Sciences

  • Versions are published as file (only the current version on the web)
  • SKOS-XL
  • Compound equivalence

• Finnish General Thesaurus YSA

  • used as source material for concepts and Finnish labels, notes etc. for YSO
  • Traditional thesaurus structure, plain SKOS
  • dct:created and dct:modified timestamps for every concept
  • thematic groups expressed using SKOS Collections, e.g. "22 Maatalous. Maanviljely. Puutarhanhoito. Kotieläintalous" (English translation: "22 Agriculture. Farming. Horticulture. Animal Husbandry")
  • some predecessor/successor links between concepts expressed using RDA Unconstrained properties
  • Finnish language labels only
  • SKOS mapping links to Allärs and (in recent versions) YSO

• Allärs

  • used as source material for Swedish labels, notes etc. for YSO
  • Swedish language counterpart of YSA, almost 1:1 equivalence (there are a few exceptions where there is a language/culture mismatch)
  • same structure as YSA, including timestamps, thematic groups, predecessor/successor links
  • SKOS mapping links to YSA and (in recent versions) YSO