This repository contains the publicly available vocabularies examined in our publication Finding Quality Issues in SKOS Vocabularies. For performing vocabulary evaluations, please use the qSKOS application/library.
All vocabularies have been downloaded from the respective project websites or were provided directly by the vocabulary creators.
Description: Multilingual agricultural thesaurus published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Publisher: aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/about
Filename: agrovoc_wb_20110223_v_1_3.rdf
Description: DBpedia categories: Wikipedia’s user-generated categories structure
Publisher: dbpedia.org
Download: downloads.dbpedia.org/3.7/en/skos_categories_en.nt.bz2
Filename: skos_categories_en.nt
Description: An ontology to add geospatial semantic information to the Web documents
Publisher: www.geonames.org/ontology/documentation.html
Download: www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v2.2.1.rdf
Filename: geonames_ontology_v2.2.1.rdf
Description: Gemeenschappelijke Thesaurus Audiovisuele Archieven (Common Thesaurus Audiovisual Archives) developed by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Publisher: sites.google.com/site/informatieprofessional/gtaa
Download: semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/lod/beeldengeluid/GTAA-25aug2010.ttl.gz
Filename: GTAA-25aug2010.ttl
Description: The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary, developed by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Cabinet Office e-Government Unit.
Publisher: www.esd.org.uk/standards/ipsv/2.00/
Download: The vocabulary is not available for bulk download, a dump containing all SKOS concepts was thankfully provided by the IPSV development team
Filename: ipsv_skos.rdf
Description: The Library of Congress Subject Headings
Publisher: id.loc.gov/download/
Download: id.loc.gov/static/data/authoritiessubjects.rdfxml.skos.zip
Filename: subjects-skos.rdf
Description: Thesaurus of the Meketre Project that contains concepts from the Egyptology domain
Publisher: meketre.org/
Download: Bulk download is not (yet) available. The vocabulary can be browsed and queried at meketrevocab.meketre.org/MeketreVocab
Filename: pp_project_meketre_20110707.rdf
Description: Medical Subject Headings published by the National Institutes of Health
Publisher: Developed by www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/, SKOS version supplied by thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/
Download: The vocabulary has been provided in three parts, thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/mesh/rdf/meshdata.rdf, thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/mesh/rdf/meshstructure.rdf, thesauri.cs.vu.nl/eswc06/mesh/rdf/meshqualifiers.rdf.
Filename: mesh_complete.nt
Description: The North American Industry Classification System for classifying business establishments
Publisher: www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/
Download: purl.org/weso/datasets/pscs/naics/2012/naics-2012.ttl
Filename: naics-2012.ttl
Description: The New York Times people authorities file
Publisher: data.nytimes.com/
Download: data.nytimes.com/N63271594737636157763.rdf
Filename: people.rdf
Description: Press contacts information dataset of the University of Southampton
Publisher: data.southampton.ac.uk/
Download: data.southampton.ac.uk/dataset/pressinfo.html
Filename: pressinfo.rdf
Description: Thesaurus for Economics published by the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. The stw_complete.rdf file contains the “base” STW vocabulary complemented with all all available (from the STW project page) mapping information to external resources.
Publisher: zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/about.en.html
Download: zbw.eu/stw/versions/latest/download/about.en.html
Filename: stw_complete.rdf