General Finnish Ontology
The General Finnish Ontology (YSO) is a trilingual ontology consisting mainly of general concepts. YSO has been founded on the basis of concepts in the Finnish cultural sphere. As an indexing tool it is best applicable when the indexed material is interdiscliplinary and its themes vary to a great extent.
The hierarchical construction of YSO is founded on parent-child relationships.The hierarchy relationships are formed differently from thesauri. All YSO concepts are siblings of one of the three top concepts: objects, properties, events and action.
In addition to this, some concepts are supplemented with associative and part-whole relations. Every concept in YSO has its own language independent persistent identifier (URI). With the use of identifiers the concepts become 'machine-readable' so that various types of software can handle them e.g. in automatic reasoning.
Following the international standards for thesauri, the terms for concepts are usually plural nouns. Terms in singular are usually mass nouns or terms referring to actions or abstract concepts. Some terms carry a different meaning when used in plural and in singular. For example, ballet refers to an art form and ballets to individual works of art.
In YSO the terms for concepts are presented in three languages. [1] [2] The Finnish terms are based on the General Finnish Thesaurus (YSA) and the Swedish terms on the General Finnish Thesaurus in Swedish (Allärs). Concepts in YSO and concepts in YSA and Allärs have been linked to each other with equivalence relationships. The english terms in YSO are being linked to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, LCSH.
YSO may be used several different ways: by browsing directly at finto.fi servce, by connecting to a local system through Finto API or by loading the whole ontology into your local system. YSO may be downloaded with CC-BY-3.0 license in three formats: RDF/XML, TURTLE and JSO-LD.
One practical example of the use of Finnish General Ontology is the CultureSampo -portal.
The publisher of YSO is the National Library of Finland. The ontology is registered in the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes by the Library of Congress as 'yso'.
History[edit]
The first version of YSO was developend in the FinnONTO research project during 2003-2007.[3] [4]
External links[edit]
- YSO online
- YSO service description
- National Semantic Web Ontology Project in Finland (FinnONTO), 2003-2012
- Subject Heading and Term Source Codes (Library of Congress)
References[edit]
- ↑ Nykyri, Susanna; Niininen, Satu (2015). "The future of metadata: Open, linked and multilingual". Scandinavian Library Quarterly. 48 (1–2). Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ↑ Niininen, Satu; Nykyri, Susanna; Suominen, Osma (2017). "The future of metadata: open, linked, and multilingual – the YSO case". Journal of Documentation. 73 (3): 451–465. doi:10.1108/JD-06-2016-0084.
- ↑ Hyvönen, Eero; Valo, Arttu; Komulainen, Ville; Seppälä, Katri; Kauppinen, Tomi; Ruotsalo, Tuukka; Salminen, Mirva; Ylisalmi, Anu (2005). Finnish National Ontologies for the Semantic Web - Towards a Content and Service Infrastructure (PDF). Retrieved 2017-11-17. Search this book on
- ↑ Hyvönen, Eero; Viljanen, Kim; Tuominen, Jouni; Seppälä, Katri (2008). Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure —The FinnONTO Approach (PDF). Retrieved 2017-11-17. Search this book on
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