Skosmos is an open-source web-based vocabulary browser and publishing tool for SKOS vocabularies. Its features include searching and browsing, alphabetical index, thematic index, structured concept display, visualized concept hierarchy, and multilingual user interface. It is used by indexers in their daily work describing documents as well as information seekers looking for suitable keywords. In addition to a web user interface, Skosmos provides a REST-style API and Linked Data access to the underlying vocabulary data.
The target audience of this workshop are people working with vocabulary services and knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classifications, or ontologies. We welcome current Skosmos users as well as those who would be interested in taking Skosmos into use.
In this workshop, we will provide a brief introduction into SKOS vocabularies, vocabulary services including Finto.fi, and the Skosmos tool itself. We will invite users of Skosmos around the world to showcase their systems and to share experiences and questions. We will also share latest news and developments about the upcoming Skosmos 3.0 release, which features a reimplemented front-end with enhanced responsiveness and accessibility, automated user interface tests, and easier maintainability. We will engage the participants to discuss and to provide feedback and ideas for the future development of Skosmos.
To register your participation in this workshop click on the “Going” button above. You will then receive an email notification as soon as facilitators post an update. Watch out to not register for two parallel workshops.
All times in UTC. Presentations include 5 minutes at the end for Q&A. Presentation order has not yet been finalised.
Note that the workshop is expected to take approximately 3 hours instead of using the full 4 hour workshop time slot.
8:00: Mona Lehtinen: Introduction and practicalities
8:10: Development of Skosmos and Finto.fi at the National Library of Finland
8:30: Skosmos use cases around the world
Darren Bell, UK Data Archive
Thomas Francart, Sparna, France
Uldis Bojars, National Library of Latvia
Jakob Voß, GBV, Germany
…other short 5-10 minute presentations welcome…
9:50 Break
10:10 Osma Suominen: What’s new in Skosmos 3
10:45 Discussion
11:00 Closing
We will use the Zoom platform. A link will be provided to all participants ahead of the session as a reply to this forum post. If you have clicked Going, you will get a notification by e-mail.
Thanks for the suggestion @crystalyragui ! We will try to arrange recordings for the workshop presentations (but not the discussion part). This of course requires consent from each presenter. At least the first (Skosmos and Finto.fi at NLF) and last (Skosmos 3) presentations will be recorded and published on the YouTube channel. Slides will be published here on the forum when possible.
Only few days left! If you have questions regarding the development, features, or the use of Skosmos, you can write them down here in advance and we can address them in the presentations and in the following discussion.
8:00: Mona Lehtinen (National Library of Finland): Introduction and practicalities
8:10: Mona Lehtinen and Joeli Pokkinen (National Library of Finland): Development of Skosmos and Finto.fi at the National Library of Finland
8:30: Skosmos use cases around the world
8:30 Thomas Francart (Sparna, France): Experiences in deploying and customizing Skosmos in France - and what we would love to see in upcoming versions!
8:45 Darren Bell (UK Data Archive): Skosmos in CESSDA: Scaling out Semantic Interoperability
9:10 Jakob Voß (GBV, Germany): BARTOC Skosmos
9:25 Uldis Bojārs (National Library of Latvia): Skosmos at the National Library of Latvia
…other short 5-10 minute presentations or quick demos/showcases still welcome…
Break
10:00 Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland): What’s new in Skosmos 3
10:45 Discussion
11:00 Closing
All presentations will be recorded and published on the SWIB YouTube channel as soon as possible after the workshop (and later also on the TIB AV Portal).
Hi, there. We have been developing a bilingual thesaurus for theological terms on TemaTres and we were wondering how we could publish it with Skosmos, especially anticipating Skosmos 3!
The presentation explained how we deployed Skosmos for a number of projects between 2015 and 2020. It outlined the advantages of Skosmos and showed one particular customisation of the UI showing a version timeline of concepts.
Here are the slides for Darren Bell’s presentation “Skosmos in CESSDA: Scaling out Semantic Interoperability”, uploaded with his permission. (I had to convert from PPT to PDF for the upload to work, I hope nothing broke too badly.)
To register your participation in this workshop click on the “Going” button above. You will then receive an email notification as soon as facilitators post an update. Watch out to not register for two parallel workshops.
