skos:Concept
A Concept is defined as a unit of thought or meaning that comes from an organised knowledge base (such as subject terms from a thesaurus or controlled vocabulary) where URIs or local identifiers have been created to represent each concept. In the cultural heritage domain there are many such controlled vocabularies such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings or AAT.
The recommended properties are marked in dark red.
The optional properties are left in black.
Please provide the properties in the record in the same order given in this document, the metadata validation performed by Europeana requires this order.
- 1 skos:Concept
- 1.1 skos:prefLabel
- 1.2 skos:altLabel
- 1.3 skos:broader
- 1.4 skos:narrower
- 1.5 skos:related
- 1.6 skos:broadMatch
- 1.7 skos:narrowMatch
- 1.8 skos:relatedMatch
- 1.9 skos:exactMatch
- 1.10 skos:closeMatch
- 1.11 skos:note
- 1.12 skos:notation
- 1.13 skos:inScheme
skos:Concept
Property | Description | Value | Cardinality |
skos:prefLabel | The preferred form of the name of the concept. Although the maximum number of occurrences is set at 1, it can be interpreted as 1 per language tag. At least one skos:prefLabel SHOULD be provided. Several prefLabels with languages tags are strongly recommended for language variants and translations. This is a recommended property for this class. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
skos:altLabel | Alternative forms of the name of the concept. Recommended unless several prefLabel are already given with different language tags (altLabel is not suitable for translations of prefLabel). This is a recommended property for this class. | literal | 0....n |
skos:broader | The identifier of a broader concept in the same thesaurus or controlled vocabulary. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | ref | 0....n |
skos:narrower | The identifier of a narrower concept. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | ref | 0....n |
skos:related | The identifier of a related concept in the same thesaurus or controlled vocabulary. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | ref | 0....n |
skos:broadMatch
| The identifier of a broader, narrower or related matching concepts from other concept schemes. | ref | 0....n |
skos:exactMatch
| The identifier of close or exactly matching concepts from other concept schemes. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | ref | 0....n |
skos:note | Information relating to the concept. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements, more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C. | literal | 0....n |
skos:notation | The notation used to represent this concept. This may or may not be words in natural language, e.g. | string (+rdf:datatype | 0....n |
skos:inScheme | The URI of a concept scheme | ref | 0....n |