Quality Criteria for Controlled Web Vocabularies
Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer · 2011
In recent years, the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) [5] has emerged as the de-facto standard for expressing controlled vocabularies on the Web. Representative examples include AGROVOC, EuroVoc, GEMET, and the STW. With the adoption of the Web of Data idea and the Linked Data principles, the number of controlled vocabularies on the Web is growing and it becomes increasingly complex to manually assess their quality. Vocabulary quality assessment is needed when institutions have to decide whether or not to adopt or align with an existing vocabulary or when they are creating new vocabularies. We believe that this can, to a certain extent, be supported by automated mechanisms.