FAIRsharing record for: JavaScript Object Notation for Simple Knowledge Organization Systems

This FAIRsharing record describes: JSKOS (JavaScript Object Notation for Simple Knowledge Organization Systems) defines a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) structure to encode knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classifications, thesauri, and authority files. JSKOS supports encoding of concepts, concept schemes, concept occurrences, and concept mappings with their common properties. It further defines application profiles for registries, distributions, and annotations. The main part of JSKOS is compatible with Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) and JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data (JSON-LD) but JSKOS can be used without having to be experienced in any of these technologies. A simple JSKOS document can be mapped to SKOS expressed in the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and vice versa. JSKOS further supports closed world statements to express incomplete information about knowledge organization systems to facilitate use in dynamic web applications.