Managing reference structures

It is important that non-technical domain experts can work on reference structures:

• they must be able to change structures, e.g. moving concepts or branches
• they must be able to add concepts to the structure, e.g. candidate concepts contributed during editorial work
• they must be able to remove parts froms a structure

In the RNA-project we develop and test facilities to edit reference structures. We use SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) as the preferred format for reference structures. The advantages of using a format like SKOS is that a standard way to describe reference structures opens the possibility to link them easily.

Topics we work on in this product group:

• SKOS structure editor
• Concept card editor
• Concept search
• Concept or lemma linking
• Candidate concept strategies