HMC Conference 2025 | Workshop 3: Publish & utilize SKOS vocabularies with SkoHub
11:00 - 13:00
Organizer: Adrian Pohl, North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre
Co-organizer: Tobias Bülte, North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre
Workshop: This hands-on workshop will guide participants through the process of publishing controlled vocabularies encoded in SKOS using SkoHub Pages. SkoHub Pages offers an efficient way to publish vocabularies in both human and machine-readable formats without requiring an additional server using GitHub Pages. After that we will see how to use these vocabularies in reconciliation tasks with SkoHub Reconcile
Agenda:
1. Introduction to RDF & SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
- Brief overview of RDF & SKOS and its significance in managing controlled vocabularies
- Examples of SKOS usage in libraries and research
2. Introduction to SkoHub
- Overview of SkoHub moduls their functionalities (SkoHub Vocabs, SkoHub Reconcile, SkoHub Shapes and SkoHub Pages)
3. Hands-on Session: Building and Publishing a Vocabulary
- Step-by-step guide to creating a controlled vocabulary in SKOS format
- Practical exercise: Participants will build their own vocabulary
- Publishing the vocabulary using SkoHub Pages on GitHub in human and machine-readable formats
4. Reconciliation
- Introduction to Reconciliation and SkoHub Reconcile
- Practical Exercise: Using the published vocabulary in a simple reconciliation task
5. Q&A and Discussion
- Addressing participants' questions and discussing potential applications
Target Audience: information professionals, developers interested in Semantic Web technologies, linked data, and vocabulary management, librarians
Prerequisites: Participants should have basic knowledge of controlled vocabularies
Please note: This workshop is part of the HMC Conference 2025 taking place in Cologne from 12-14 May 2025. Participation must be in person and is only possible for people who are registered for the conference.
