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Dictionaries in SKOS namespace

ODM also supports dictionaries in SKOS namespace. This feature is useful to organize terms in a hierarchical structure, which enables more advanced search capabilities. Both RDF/XML and TURTLE formats of dictionaries are supported. Predicates skos:broader, skos:narrower skos:related, skos:definition, and skos:exactMatch are recognized and utilized by ODM.

Example of SKOS dictionary

Here are the examples of an artificial short SKOS dictionary in TURTLE and in RDF/XML formats:

TURTLE format 
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .

<http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/562>
 a skos:Concept ;
 skos:prefLabel "Cerebral cortex"@en .

<http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/104>
 a skos:Concept ;
 skos:narrower <http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/562> ;
 skos:prefLabel "Brain"@en .

<http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/562> skos:broader <http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/104> .
RDF/XML format 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#">

    <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/562">
        <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Cerebral cortex</skos:prefLabel>
        <skos:broader>
            <skos:Concept rdf:about="http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/104">
                <skos:narrower rdf:resource="http://vocabulary.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BodySystem/562"/>
                <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Brain</skos:prefLabel>
            </skos:Concept>
        </skos:broader>

    </skos:Concept>

</rdf:RDF>

This dictionary defines two concepts: Brain and Cerebral cortex. Uploading this dictionary to ODM not only will allow you to assign a template attribute to have values Brain and Cerebral cortex but also will rate the full-text search results according to these relationships: if a user searches for Brain, the search results will also include studies that have Cerebral cortex as a value, and vice versa: a search for Cerebral cortex will also include studies that have Brain value, but with a lower score.