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KOKO is a collection of Finnish core ontologies, which have been merged together . The ontologies include the Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) and ontologies that extend and refine YSO such as the Ontology for Museum Domain (MUSO), the Ontology of Applied Arts, and the Finnish Ontology of Photography (FOTO).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

Koko is maintaned by the Finto service at the National Library of Finland. It is currently updated a few times per year.

KOKO is available with a CCmainly in three languages for browsing at http://finto.fi/koko/. Koko is maintaned by the Finto service at the National Library of Finland. and for linked data services at Finto API.

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 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

• Linked open ontology cloud: managing a system of interlinked cross-domain lightweight ontologies
  M Frosterus, J Tuominen, S Pessala, E Hyvönen
  International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 10 (3), 189-201