vocpub-profile
Vocabularies Publication Profile
This is a profile of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) intended to allow for easy to manage and publish vocabularies.
By profile, what is meant here is “A specification that constrains, extends, combines, or provides guidance or explanation about the usage of other specifications.” (from PROF) and, here the other specification is SKOS.
This profile is formulated according to the Profiles Vocabulary and provides Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) validator files that can be used to determine whether vocabularies conform to this profile.
This profile is hosted online in Linked Data form using a persistent web address:
Profile Definition & Specification
For an overview of all the elements of this Profile, see the Profile Definition:
For all the Profile’s rules, see the Specification:
For the technical SHACL validator, see:
License
This code is licensed using the CC BY 4.0 licence. See the LICENSE file for the deed.
Note Citation below for attribution.
Citation
To cite this profile, please use the following (formulated in BibTex):
@software{vocpub-profile,
author = ,
title = ,
version = {4.2},
date = {2023},
publisher = ,
url = {https://w3id.org/profile/vocpub}
}
Contact
publisher:
Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
https://www.linked.data.gov.au
creator:
Dr Nicholas J. Car
Honorary Lecturer
Australian National University
nicholas.car@anu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-7730
https://cecs.anu.edu.au/people/nicholas-car