In NL we have eg:

https://bp4mc2.org/profiles/#skos-toepassingsprofiel-voor-begrippenkaders

a profile for LD application for the government.
(you have to follow or explain why not…)

It has an integral role for skos.

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Small fragment (google) translation:

2. SKOS Application profile for conceptual frameworks

Concepts make it clear which "topics of conversation" there are. In a system 
catalog terms are formally defined, each definition being built up according to 
strict rules. The essence is that every concept in a particular domain is 
explained in terms of other concepts. Those concepts are also limited until 
every concept that needs explanation has been defined. Ultimately, the concepts 
remain, the meaning of which is assumed to be automatic. In a logical model 
these are called axioms. This creates an axiomatic conceptual framework for 
each domain. This conceptual framework can be regarded as a more-less specified 
description of the institutional reality of the domain.

SKOS is used to describe concepts. SKOS is on the apply or explain list in the 
Netherlands.

Each concept is represented by a skos: concept.
Each domain has its own conceptual framework. The conceptual framework for a 
particular domain is represented by a skos: ConceptScheme.
Concepts can be organized in collections. A collection is represented by a 
skos: collection.
Concepts in different domains can be linked through appropriate mechanisms. 
This connection of concepts between domains creates a cohesion of coherent 
conceptual frameworks. This system of coherent conceptual frameworks can be 
seen as the knowledge base for a system catalog.




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David Price
Verzonden: woensdag 14 april 2021 11:25
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Why SKOS in ontologies? Was Re: [topbraid-users] best practise name 
space in multiple languages?

Hi TB users,

The discussion with Michel caused a question to pop into my mind and I hope to 
get some customer feedback here.

I see customers/bodies use SKOS to define what turn out to be simple lists of 
standard class instances that are then used in an ontology. My question is - 
Why?

OWL enumerated classes provide the same standard-instance capability, but 
without the added “clutter” in your ontology when you import SKOS. The number 
of completely empty, never-to-be-used cases of Collection, Concept Scheme, etc. 
appearing as classes in ontologies has become surprising to me.

Can anyone who’s been part of making this kind of decision in your ontologies 
please explain Why?  Among other possible reasons, a few I could think of might 
be:

  *   Is it that the UI for creating them is simpler?
  *   Is it that these standard instances are seen as being somehow improved by 
having a not-well-defined tree structure available via broader/narrower?
  *   Is it that you’re using a standard that’s done this and you’d be happy 
with any solution that supports defining standard instances? i.e. perhaps a 
SKOS-to-enumerated-class importer for these situations would be a useful tool?
  *   Is that you really have use cases like described here: 
https://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/skos-and-owl/master.html. ?
  *   Is it really just that you prefer/need the SKOS annotation properties, 
even for classes, instances, etc? (I like them and have local a 
skos-annotations-only.ttl I reuse)
We are always looking for real-world user scenarios wrt improving EDG, and so 
you can also think of this as a requirements gathering/feature request exercise.

It may be there are some EDG feature or UI changes we could make. It may be 
that a How-To video on our Web site explaining this approach and how to best 
execute it in EDG would be useful. I don’t know but thought it worth asking the 
requirements question to see how prevalent this is and why it happens.

Cheers,
David



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x.y  Combination of language bindings

In practice, there will often be a need for a combination of language bindings. 
In the most extensive case, this concerns (always 1 or more):

  *   SKOS concept scheme;
  *   RDFS (basic) ontology (imports the SKOS concept scheme);
  *   OWL ontology (imports the RDFS ontology);
  *   SHACL graph (imports the RDFS ontology).
Since the semantic intent of the SKOS concepts is fundamentally different from 
that of the ontological resources describing the semantics of the data and/or 
serving as the basis for reasoning about data, it is important to distinguish 
the name space URIs from the SKOS concepts of the name space URIs of the 
ontology resources by using a different name space. The ontological items are 
linked to the corresponding SKOS items using the existing rdfs:isDefinedBy 
relationship.

Since RDFS, OWL and SHACL are not fundamentally different and cover 
complementary semantic aspects, the same name space URIs can be used mutually 
for resources defined 1) with RDFS only, 2) with RDFS plus OWL and 3) with RDFS 
plus SHACL. A resource can be typed as an rdfs:Class, an owl:Class and a 
sh:NodeShape at the same time. The ontologies represented in RDFS, OWL and 
SHACL are recorded in their own graphs with their own graph URI and can 
therefore be used independently of each other and import each other.



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