SKOS : un sistema per l'organizzazione della conoscenza

The development of Semantic Web includes not only new technologies like web service, search engines, ontologies but also different worlds like librarianship and other disciplines that for hundred of years have been working with knowledge organization (KOS). This thesis focuses the attention on this type of tools: the rapid growth of means and digital contents on the Web has increased the needs to organize the immense size of information. Tools for knowledge organization like thesauri, taxonomies, concept schemas are fundamental for the birth and the development of the Semantic Web. In this thesis it comes taken in consideration and analyzed one emergent technology candidate to become soon standard recommended from the W3C: SKOS. The standards are taken in consideration that discipline the construction of thesauri, existing technologies are analyzed and some simple examples are modeled. Moreover other alternative instruments are analyzed for the knowledge organisation system, and some real applications based on the SKOS framework are introduced. Supervisor of the degree thesis: Prof. Renzo Orsini.