Searching and exploring controlled vocabularies
Alasdair J. G. Gray, Norman Gray, Iadh Ounis · 2009
Within most domains of discourse, there exists different terminology used by distinct sub-groups. Often the terms used can be, or have already been, organised into controlled vocabularies which can be encoded into SKOS, a W3C standard for representing vocabularies. This terminology can then be used to help users to search for and discover resources. This requires a search mechanism to go from a user-supplied string to a vocabulary concept.