SCHASKOS: A SKOS-Based Tool for Supporting the Decision Making Process in a Supply Chain

Semantic Web technologies provide innovative means for organizing, describing, and managing digital resources in a wide range of formats. From this perspective, Linked Data has recently gained some attention in the supply chain management field as an effective way to provide and share data across all the value chain. Semantic Web technologies can support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. This search engines allows the supply chain data exploitation in order to get valuable knowledge. However, a successful implementation and use of Semantic Web technologies requires both information professionals and system developers. In this paper, we propose a Web-based tool called SCHASKOS that covers these needs by working with the W3C's Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) by using Linked Data. The SCHASKOS tool is a Linked Data-based tool for non-experience information professionals that allows the SKOS and Linked Data adoption for supply chain knowledge management in organizations. Additionally, a case study of how the SCHASKOS tool works and their benefits are presented.