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Simple Knowledge Organization System - Is SKOS an ontology?
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Despite their shared and differentiated goals, SKOS and OWL are not the same thing. Unlike OWL ontologies, SKOS Concept schemes cannot be considered formal ontologies. The conceptual hierarchies (broader/narrower) that SKOS describes do not come with formal semantics.