Why We Want to Publish Controlled Vocabulary in SKOS?

GAMECIP Advisory MeetingJuly 2, 2014

Peter Chan, Digital Archivist

LCSH for Game Console not Adequate.

Can’t find Good Controlled Vocabularies for Video Game Console with Open License.

Request Update on LCSH.

Not a Quick Process.

LC not necessarily has the expertise.

Publish our Own List!

What should the Features of Such

System?

www.stanford.edu/uri/gameconsole/12345

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atari-2600-Wood-4Sw-Set.jpg

Atari Video Game SystemAtari 2600Atari VCS

Sears Tele-Games Video ArcadeSears Video Arcade

Sears Tele-Game Video Arcade IIAtari 2800

Atari Jr.

ニンテンドー DS

Nintendo DS 任天堂 DS

닌텐도 DS

Interface for human to search and browse.

Machines interface for other program to interact.

Follow Standards!!

SKOS

Simple Knowledge Organization System

Scope: knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists…

SKOS is for representing KOSs in RDF in a simple way

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

Concepts and labelscats

UF (used for) domestic cats

skos: = http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#rdf: = http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#ex: = http://example.org/

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

Note: multilingual labels

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

Semantic relations

catsRT (related term)

wildcatsBT (broader term)

animals

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

A SKOS graphanimalscats

UF domestic catsRT wildcatsBT animalsSN used only for

domestic catsdomestic cats

USE catswildcats

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

SKOS mappingsSKOS allows bridging across KOSs from different

contextsKOS 1:animalscatswildcats

KOS 2:animalhumanobject

SKOS and Linked Data, Antoine Isaac, ISKO, London, Sept. 14th 2010

Software to Create SKOS

• SKOSjs

• SKOS Editor

Platform to Publish SKOS

• Linked Media Framework

• Apache Marmotta

Services to Publish SKOS

• Open Metadata Registry

• Poolparty, Inc.

Open Metadata Registry

• Human Interface (Search and Browse)

• Download (can be used in auto complete when assigning metadata)

• Machine Interface – SPARQL Endpoint

4 Parties to make Game Console SKOS Successful

• Librarians / Archivists to provide expertise in constructing controlled vocabularies.

• Game researchers to provided expertise in the subject matter (game console).

• Programmers/System Administrators to setup the platform.

• Institutions/Metadata distributors to use the SKOS.

SKOS Too Simple

Video game consoles have CPU, joystick, track-ball, keypad, paddles, floppy disk drive, cassette tape player, ROM, RAM, hard drive, video card, manufacturer, release date, third party extensions………………….., etc.

SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System

• One of the use cases: Librarians Cataloging videos games.

• Game researchers who want to know more about game consoles need other tools – Create an ontology of game consoles.

Introduction to OWL – Matthew Horridge

Introduction to OWL – Matthew Horridge

Future Works

• Other Controlled Vocabularies

• More Elaborate Ontology for Game Console