Finally got around to rebuilding my personal website: https://naturzukunft.de
It explains what I'm working on: open, federated infrastructure so small initiatives — repair cafés, community gardens, food co-ops — become visible to AI systems. Not another platform. Open rails.
Skosmos 3.1. has been released!
This is a minor release that takes the first steps towards implementing the new Skosmos in finto.fi . Among the improvements, this adds support for some SKOS features like better handling of collections, ordered property values, and deprecated concepts. It also improves the search result page, and makes it easier to deploy Skosmos with Docker.
More information on the recent changes on GitHub https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases/tag/v3.1
@w3c
The RDF version of SKOS [1] does not contain a licensing information, other than e.g. SSN [2] or DCAT3 [3]. Is it permitted to distribute (parts of) it and under which conditions? Does the W3C Software license [4] or the W3C Document license [5] apply to it, and if yes, which version? Could a licensing statement be added?
1. https://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.rdf
2. https://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/ssn.rdf
3. https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat3.ttl
4. https://www.w3.org/copyright/software-license-2023/
5. https://www.w3.org/copyright/document-license-2023/
Tomorrow, 29th January at 12 noon CET, I will participate in an online panel discussion titled "Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Organisation", organised by Linnaeus University (Sweden).
"This two-hour panel brings together leading experts to explore how AI transforms knowledge organization in libraries and related cultural heritage institutions as well as research data services."
More info and Zoom link:
i wrote about some of the challenges with semantic mappings 🗺️
https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/20/semantic-mapping-challenges.html
#ontology #owl #rdf #sssom #semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #skos
There are many challenges associated with the curation, publication, acquisition, and usage of semantic mappings. This post examines their philosophical, technical, and practical implications, highlights existing solutions, and describes opportunities for next steps for the community of curators, semantic engineers, software developers, and data scientists who make and use semantic mappings.
i've written a few blog posts lately on semantic mappings, SSSOM, JSKOS, and automated assembly of data and knowledge. i'm also always very proud to do this by hand, without AI
1. SSSOM and Wikidata: https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/08/sssom-to-wikidata.html
2. SSSOM and JSKOS: https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/15/sssom-to-jskos.html
3. SSSOM and BioPortal: https://cthoyt.com/2025/11/23/sssom-from-bioportal.html
4. semantic mappings enable automated assembly of data and knowledge: https://cthoyt.com/2026/01/16/mappings-for-automated-assembly.html
At the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop in Limburg an der Lahn, I proposed an initial crosswalk between the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) and the Wikidata semantic mapping data model. This post describes the motivation for this proposal and the concrete implementation I’ve developed in sssom-pydantic.
Skosmos 3.0 is now available! 🎉
This major release of the vocabulary publishing tool includes a rebuilt frontend, improved accessibility, and automated testing. We've also updated the translation framework & plugin system, optimized and cleaned up the code and reduced the number of dependencies.
Organisée par Logilab, SemWeb.Pro est une journée de conférence francophone dédiée au Web Sémantique et aux graphes de connaissances, qui réunit chaque année une cinquantaine de personnes depuis sa première édition en 2011. Participer à SemWeb.Pro, c’est l’occasion d’échanger avec les membres de la
📣 Einladung zum Clustertreffen des CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies!
📅 21.10.2025, 13:00 Uhr (Zoom)
Das @ACDHCH_OeAW stellt #Vocabs vor – ein Service für kontrollierte Vokabulare in den #DigitalHumanities.
Vortragende: Massimiliano Carloni & Martina Trognitz.
💻 Teilnahme ohne Anmeldung:
🔗 https://dainst-org.zoom.us/j/95829394260
ℹ️ Mehr Infos über Vocabs: https://vocabs.dariah.eu/
#Vocabs #LinkedData #SKOS #OpenScience #DARIAHEU #AuthorityFiles #SemanticWeb #Terminologien
Last week I told you about the "Learning Objectives Matrix on the Topic of Research Data Management (RDM)" (in this blog post: https://winoda.de/en/2025/09/09/the-lom-for-rdm-and-the-unevenly-distributed-knowledge)
I only just realized that @DINInestorAGFD has already published the English version on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15846806
It has also been skosified - you can share, fork, update and participate on a github repo as well: https://github.com/dini-ag-kim/fdm-lernziele.
Which is great news! Have a look!
naturzukunft
Finto-palvelu
Jan Martin Keil
Osma Suominen
Charles Tapley Hoyt
Agenda du Libre
NFDI4Objects
Asta v. Schröder