The content partners in the ATHENA project in Israel are the Israel
National Library, the Israel State Archive and the Israel Museum Jerusalem.
MAKASH is the official Israel partner ATHENA.
SKOS is a W3C recommendation for expressing controlled vocabularies
in RDF. It enable correspondences to be established
between concepts from different schemas. SKOS represented vocabularies
establish hubs of knowledge in the rapidly evolving Semantic Web of Linked
Open Data. Vocabularies related to Israel and the Jewish People should be
represented in SKOS enabling the expression, description and access to
knowledge of such particular interest.
The Israel
Internet Society through its W3C Office
expressed interest in the proposal presented by MAKASH to disseminate the use
of SKOS in Israel. A first step in this potential collaboration is the
workshop with Regine Stein, Head of Information Technology at the German
Documentation Center for Art History.
Announcementsrelated to
the SKOS Workshop, January 11, 2010
