KOKO is a collection of Finnish core ontologies, which have been merged together into an ontology cloud. List of the currently included ontologies is
- AFO - Natural resource and environment ontology
- JUHO - Finnish Ontology for Public Administration
- JUPO - Finnish Ontology for Public Administration Services
- KAUNO - ontology for fiction
- KITO - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen ontologia
- KTO - Kielitieteen ontologia
- KULO - Kulttuurien tutkimuksen ontologia
- LIIKO - Liikenteen ontologia
- LIITO - Liiketoimintaontologia
- MAO/TAO - Ontology for Museum Domain and Applied Arts
- MUSO - Ontology for Music
- SOTO - Sotatieteen ontologia
- TERO - Finnish Ontology of Health and Welfare
- TSR ontology
- VALO - The Finnish Ontology of Photography
- YSO - General Finnish ontology
Availability
- User interface: Finto/KOKO
- Data downloads:
- RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
- APIs, Linked Data, Finto REST API
- Koko is maintained by the Finto service at the National Library of Finland. It is currently updated a few times per year.
- License: CC Attribution 3.0 International
Identifiers
- Namespace for the KOKO concept URIs is http://www.yso.fi/onto/koko/
- Wikidata item: Q107539699
- LoC and MARC vocabularies ID: subjectSchemes/koko
- BARTOC ID: 917
History
The KOKO ontology was originally developed in the FinnONTO project at the SeCo group with a group or organizations:
- FinnONTO Consortium
- National Library of Finland
- Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo)
- The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK
The history and earlier phases of the KOKO ontology have been described at http://www.seco.tkk.fi/ontologies/koko/ where it was named as the Finnish Collaborative Holistic Ontology.
Publications related to KOKO
- Automated tools for propagating a common hierarchy from a set of vocabularies (PDF) by Joeli Takala (2020). A presentation at the SWIB20 conference.
- Linked open ontology cloud: managing a system of interlinked cross-domain lightweight ontologies by M Frosterus, J Tuominen, S Pessala, E Hyvönen (2015). International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 10 (3), 189-201
- Linked Open Ontology Cloud KOKO—Managing a System of Cross-Domain Lightweight Ontologies by Frosterus M., Tuominen J., Pessala S., Seppälä K., Hyvönen E. (2013) In: Cimiano P., Fernández M., Lopez V., Schlobach S., Völker J. (eds) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2013 Satellite Events. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7955. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
