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→In the library and information sciences, a long and distinguished heritage is devoted to developing tools for organizing large collections of objects such as books or museum artifacts. These tools are known generally as "knowledge organization systems" (KOS) or sometimes as "controlled structured vocabularies". Several similar yet distinct traditions have emerged over time, each supported by a community of practice and set of agreed standards. Different families of knowledge organization systems, including thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems, and taxonomies are widely recognized and applied in both modern and traditional information systems. In practice it can be hard to draw an absolute distinction between thesauri and classification schemes or taxonomies, although some properties can be used to broadly characterize these different families (see e.g., [BS8723-3]). The important point for SKOS is that, in addition to their unique features, each of these families shares much in common, and can often be used in similar ways [SKOS-UCR]. However, there is currently no widely deployed standard for representing these knowledge organization systems as data and exchanging them between computer systems.

→The Simple Knowledge Organization System is a data-sharing standard, bridging several different fields of knowledge, technology and practice.