SKOS and BibTeX in Creating Semantic Ontology on Medical Articles

There are numerous projects that can serve as useful foundations for forming your ontology. One of such projects is Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a W3C Recommendation.
SKOS provides a standard way to represent knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classification schemes using the RDF. Another project is BibTeX, a method of marking up bibliographic data, primarily for use in LaTeX documents, but also useful for generic bibliographic storage.

With Fluent Editor, you can utilize both projects through importing them as references, which can be useful for expressing better organization of knowledge. In this post, we will present how SKOS and BibTeX can be utilized in creating your ontology. Data used in the following ontology is based on an excerpt from a list of medical articles on PubMed Central (PMC).

Using OWL Annotation in Fluent Editor

OWL Annotations together with SKOS and DcTerms form a widely used Thesaurus standard that help the ontology modeler to give meaningful names to elements of the ontology or to relates elements in various ontology. In the latest release of Fluent Editor, we have introduced the possibility to add, remove and modify OWL annotations with full support for SKOS and DcTerms. As always this has been implemented thinking of the usability over everything. 

All actions related to the annotations are reachable from the Annotation tab that was added in the right column of the Fluent Editor window. To see how to use annotations in Fluent Editor,you can open the Book Reference template. To see the template, click on File -> New  and then Book Reference.