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References: Concept Metadata and Semantic Labeling Standards

  1. Simple Knowledge Organization System - Wikipedia - Covers SKOS's preferred label, alternate label, and broader/narrower/related relation types in full, directly underlying this chapter's SKOS sections.

  2. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference - W3C - The official W3C SKOS specification defining skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel, skos:broader, skos:narrower, and skos:related, the formal source this chapter's SKOS relation sections summarize in plain language.

  3. Dublin Core - Wikipedia - Explains the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, including Title and Description, the standard this chapter's Dublin Core Title and Dublin Core Description sections apply to this project's own metadata.json.

  4. Unique identifier - Wikipedia - Covers the general design principles behind stable identifiers that outlive a changing display label, background for this chapter's Unique Concept Identifier section.

  5. Granularity - Wikipedia - Explains granularity as a level-of-detail concept applicable to information systems, the general principle this chapter's Concept Granularity, Atomic Concept, and Composite Concept sections apply specifically to concept labeling.

  6. Synonym ring - Wikipedia - Describes how controlled vocabularies group equivalent terms together, the information-science background for this chapter's Synonym Management section.

  7. Word-sense disambiguation - Wikipedia - Covers the general problem of resolving which meaning a word carries in context, background for this chapter's Homonym Disambiguation section.

  8. Data governance - Wikipedia - Surveys policies and practices for maintaining data quality and consistency over time, the broader discipline this chapter's Vocabulary Governance section narrows to concept labels specifically.

  9. Provenance - Wikipedia - Explains provenance as a chronology of ownership and origin, the general concept this chapter's Concept Provenance section applies to individual concept nodes in a learning graph.

  10. ISO/IEC 11179 - Information technology — Metadata registries (MDR) - International Organization for Standardization - The metadata-registry standard this project's own Chapter 2 already cites for concept-definition conventions, extended here to naming-convention and machine-readable-metadata governance practices.