ShowVoc: a thorough platform for publishing and browsing linked open datasets

ShowVoc is a web-based, multilingual, platform for publication of linked datasets of different nature and scope: OWL ontologies, SKOS/SKOS-XL thesauri, OntoLex-Lemon lexicons, generic RDF datasets and linksets (EDOAL, XKOS). 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, an advanced browsing interface and inter-dataset functionalities (e.g. global search, navigation of dataset relationships/alignments, translation API benefiting from multilingual datasets and linksets) into a thorough platform for data provisioning. 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. ShowVoc’s mission, requirements and its collocation within the SoTA are discussed in the paper.