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National Library’s Finto-service develops

• Technical infrastructure for publishing and use of interoperable ontologies and vocabularies
• Network of linked multilingual indexing ontologies of various domains

Finto.fi is based on open source Skosmos-software, that is developed in the National Library

• • Finto provides an API for easy access to its data
  • Finto is integrated to several information systems in cultural memory organizations and elsewhere

The Finto Family of Ontologies is a group of machine readable semantic conceptualizations, that are used for annotating different materials like publications, websites and datasets

• General FinnishOntology YSO forms a basis and structure for the linked ontology system
• Several domain ontologies built to extend the general concepts of YSO
• YSO and the domain ontologies together form the KOKO ontology cloud
• All ontologies published through finto.fi as linked open data
  
  

The aim of the Finto-system is to make data and services more semantic and interoperable and thus to provide better service for the end-users
The use of Linked data technologies assures easy reuse and enables the development of more intelligent information systems

We can be reached by email at [email protected]