| Simple Knowledge Organization System | |
| Abbreviation | SKOS |
|---|---|
| Status | Published (W3C Recommendation) |
| Year started | 1997 |
| Latest version | Core, Reference, RDF, Primer August 2009, 18 |
| Organization | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) |
| Committee | Semantic Web Deployment Working Group |
| Authors | Alistair Miles, Sean Bechhofer |
| Base standards | RDF |
| Related standards | RDFa, OWL, ISO 25964, Dublin Core |
| Domain | Semantic Web |
| Website | www |
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is part of the Semantic Web family of standards built upon RDF and RDFS, and its main objective is to enable easy publication and use of such vocabularies as linked data.