GeoKOS is a registry of KOS Resources and supports utilities in the natural history museum collections domain. The name GeoKOS refers to the original scope in the geosciences domain. Since its inception, GeoKOS has been extended across the collections community.
Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) encompass all types of schemes for organizing information and promoting knowledge management, such as classification schemes, gazetteers, lexical databases, taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies. They are designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of information.
Hodge (2000)
A Knowledge Organization System provides a framework or schema for storing and organizing data, information, and knowledge about the world and thoughts for a variety of purposes, including understanding, retrieval, discovery, and, ultimately, reasoning.
Soergel D (2009)
Several published reviews of KOS resources have proposed categorization schemes. These include the Classification Scheme, Dictionary, Name AUthority List, Ontology, Synonym Ring, Taxonomy, Thesaurus, and Controlled Vocabulary. Please see the references below for more information. Hodge (2000), ISO 25964, NKOS Types Vocabulary, Souza et al (2012), and Zeng ML (2008)
- Hodge G (2000) Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources. Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/contents.html
- ISO 25964-1:2011. Information and documentation – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval. 1st ed. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 2011-08-08. 152 p.
- ISO 25964-2:2013. Information and documentation – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies. 1st ed. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 2013-03-04. 99 p.
- Mazzocchi F (2018) Knowledge organization system (KOS): an introductory critical account. Knowledge Organization 45, 54-78. https://www.isko.org/cyclo/kos
- NKOS Types Vocabulary. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. NKOS Task Group. https://nkos.dublincore.org/nkos-type.html
- Soergel D (2009) Knowledge organization systems: overview. Dsoergel, Alexandria. https://www.dsoergel.com/UBLIS514DS-08.2a-1Reading4SoergelKOSOverview.pdf
- Souza RR, Tudhope D, Almeida MB (2012). Towards a taxonomy of KOS: dimensions for classifying knowledge organization systems. KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 39(3), 179-192.
- Zeng ML (2008) Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). Knowledge Organization 35, 160–182.