Affiliations: [a] CSIRO Land and Water, PO Box 56, Highett, Vic. 3190, Australia | [b] CSIRO Mineral Resources, PO Box 1130, Bentley WA, 6102, Australia. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract: The Spatial Information Services Stack Vocabulary Service (SISSVoc) is a Linked Data API for accessing published vocabularies. SISSVoc provides a RESTful interface via a set of URI patterns that are aligned with SKOS. These provide a standard web interface for any vocabulary which uses SKOS classes and properties. The SISSVoc implementation provides web pages for human users, and machine-readable resources for client applications (in RDF, JSON, and XML). SISSVoc is implemented using a Linked Data API façade over a SPARQL endpoint. This approach streamlines the configuration of content negotiation, styling, query construction and dispatching. SISSVoc is being used in a number of projects, mainly in the environmental sciences, where controlled vocabularies are used to support cross-domain and interdisciplinary interoperability. SISSVoc simplifies access to vocabularies for end users, and provides a web API to support vocabulary applications.
Keywords: Vocabulary, SKOS, API, Linked Data
DOI: 10.3233/SW-140166
Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 9-24, 2016
