Glossary

language-tag

A valid tag from the IANA language subtag registry. Eg. nl-BE, en-Latn-GB, i-klingon, lb, zh-latn-pinyin-x-notone, … Skosprovider uses the language-tags library to handle the complexities of these tags.

RDF

Resource Description Framework. A very flexible model for data definition organised around triples. These triples forms a directed, labeled graph, where the edges represent the named link between two resources, represented by the graph nodes.

SKOS

Simple Knowledge Organization System. A general specification for Knowledge Organisation Systems (thesauri, word lists, authority files, …) that is commonly serialised as RDF.

SKOS-THES

The ISO 25964 SKOS extension defines mappings between the ISO 25964 standard and the SKOS specification.

URI

A Uniform Resource Identifier.

URN

A URN is a specific form of a URI.