Outline of the Modelling Approach
Outline of the Modelling Approach
The EuroVoc ontology is an extension of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) - W3C recommendation, including appendix B, SKOS eXtension for Labels (SKOS-XL).
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The vocabularies imported in the ontology are:
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos.html (downloadable via the http protocol, accepting RDF, or via http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos.rdf)
http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-xl.html (downloadable via the http protocol, accepting RDF, or via http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/skos-xl.rdf)
Namespaces used in the ontology, and prefixes used in this document
| Dublin Core | dc= | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
| EuroVoc | eu= | http://eurovoc.europa.eu/schema# |
| OWL | owl= | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# |
| RDF | rdf= | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# |
| RDF Schema | rdfs= | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# |
| SKOS | skos= | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# |
| SKOS-xl | xl= | http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos-xl# |
| XML Schema | xsd= | http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# |
Used Schema Annotations
EuroVoc resources have been modelled as direct extensions of the SKOS and SKOS-XL classes and properties. Some Dublin Core properties have been reused and re-declared without importing the complete DCMI RDF schemes. (dc:identifier)