Journal article
Developing a web-based SKOS editor
M Conway, A Khojoyan, F Fana, W Scuba, M Castine, D Mowery, W Chapman, S Jupp
Journal of Biomedical Semantics | BMC | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background: The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) was introduced to the wider research community by a 2005 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working draft, and further developed and refined in a 2009 W3C recommendation. Since then, SKOS has become the de facto standard for representing and sharing thesauri, lexicons, vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification schemes. In this paper, we describe the development of a web-based, free, open-source SKOS editor built for the development, curation, and management of small to medium-sized lexicons for health-related Natural Language Processing (NLP). Results: The web-based SKOS editor allows users to create, curate, version, manage, and vi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Drs Tania Tudorache, Natasha Noy, and Matthew Horridge of Stanford University's Department of Biomedical Informatics for their valuable guidance in using the OWL API. This work was funded by grants from the United States Veterans Administration (VA HIR 08-204), and the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM 1R01LM010964). An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 6th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2014) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.