SKOS Core

SKOS stands for Simple Knowledge Organisation System. SKOS Core is a model used to describe 'concept' schemas and the relationships between them. For example, glossaries, thesauri, controlled vocabularies.

Functionality: 

Provides a framework for expressing knowledge organisation systems in a machine-understandable way.

Level of Expertise: 
Good understanding of the concept of ontologies and descriptive schemas, such as RDF.

The DCC is funded by

Joint Information Systems Committee