Linked Science Core Vocabulary Specification
Document that defines the Linked Science Core Vocabulary
Linked Science Core Vocabulary namespace
2011-11-29T11:30:00Z
2011-11-29T11:30:00Z
Tomi Kauppinen
Carsten KeÃler
LSC, the Linked Science Core Vocabulary,
is a lightweight vocabulary providing terms to enable publishers and researchers to relate things in science to time, space, and themes. More precisely, LSC is designed for describing scientific resources including elements of research, their context, and for interconnecting them. We introduce LSC as an example of building blocks for Linked Science to communicate the linkage between scientific resources in a machine-understandable way. The âcoreâ in the name refers to the fact that LSC only defines the basic terms for science. We argue that the success of Linked Scienceâor Linked Data in generalâlies in interconnected, yet distributed vocabularies that minimize ontological commitments. More specific terms needed by different scientific communities can therefore be introduced as extensions of LSC.
LSC is hosted at LinkedScience.org; please check also other available vocabularies at LinkedScience.org/vocabularies.