Organizational scholars have long used vocabularies, and with the rise of research on language this work has grown. Yet the research drawing on vocabularies is wide-ranging and not integrated. We review work on vocabularies from literatures on rhetoric, culture, cognition, and coordination. We integrate and extend this work on vocabularies, introducing the new concept of vocabulary structure to...

We survey the current state of SKOS vocabularies on the Web. We identified 478 SKOS vocabularies, which were gathered through collections and web crawling. Analyses were then conducted that included investigation of the use of SKOS constructs; the use of SKOS semantic relations and lexical labels; and the structure of vocabularies in terms of the hierarchical and associative relations, branchin...

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabularies are commonly used to represent lightweight conceptual vocabularies such as taxonomies, classifications and thesauri on the Web of Data. We have analyzed 14 such vocabularies and found most of them to contain structural errors. Our tool, Skosify, can be used to automatically validate SKOS vocabularies and correct many problems, helping to ...