Towards ShowVoc: dataset publication and browsing

ShowVoc is a web-based, multilingual, platform for publication and consumption of datasets complying with Semantic Web standards. Born in the context of the ISA2 European programme for the development of digital solutions for interoperable cross-border and cross-sector public services, ShowVoc aims at providing a one-stop shop for maximizing the diffusion of semantic and lexical resources as Linked Open Data. To this end, ShowVoc combines traditional data provisioning following LOD policies with global activities (e.g. global search, navigation of dataset relationships/alignments, translation API benefiting from multilingual datasets and linksets). A rich dataset browsing interface provides dedicated support for diverse data models: OWL ontologies, SKOS/SKOS-XL thesauri, OntoLex-Lemon lexicons and generic RDF datasets and linkage possibilities (EDOAL, XKOS). A metadata registry completes the offer combining different metadata vocabularies into an advanced catalog that can be inspected through a convenient user interface and LOD best practices. Finally, ShowVoc is an ideal companion to VocBench, a popular collaborative editing environment for Semantic Web resources, complementing it for realizing an entire workflow embracing all stages of a dataset life, from realization and maintenance, to release and publication.