skos:Concept

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Last updated: Feb 15, 2024
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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.

skos:Concept

Property

Description

Value
type

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.
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="fr">Buccin</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="de">Buccin</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="nl">Buccin</skos:prefLabel>

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).
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Buccin</skos:altLabel>

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.
<skos:broader rdf:resource=“http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/4369_1 ”/>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C

ref

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skos:narrower

The identifier of a narrower concept.
<skos:narrower rdf:resource=“http://narrower.term/”/>

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.
<skos:related rdf:resource=“http://related.term/”/>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C

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skos:broadMatch


skos:narrowMatch


skos:relatedMatch

The identifier of a broader, narrower or related matching concepts from other concept schemes.
<skos:broadMatch rdf:resource=“http://broadMatch.term/”/>
<skos:narrowMatch rdf:resource=“http://narrowMatch.term/”/>
<skos:relatedMatch rdf:resource=“http://relatedMatch.term/”/>

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skos:exactMatch


skos:closeMatch

The identifier of close or exactly matching concepts from other concept schemes.
<skos:exactMatch rdf:resource=“http://exactMatch.term/”/>
<skos:closeMatch rdf:resource=“http://closeMatch.term/”/>

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.
<skos:note>The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity.</skos:note>

For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements, more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C.

literal

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skos:notation

The notation used to represent this concept. This may or may not be words in natural language, e.g.
<skos:notation rdf:datatype=“https://iconclass.org/rdf/2021/09/”>25F23(LION)</skos:notation>

string (+rdf:datatype
attribute)

0....n

skos:inScheme

The URI of a concept scheme

ref

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