Skosprovider

Skosprovider provides an interface that can be included in an application to allow it to talk to different SKOS vocabularies. These vocabularies could be defined locally or accessed remotely through webservices. Adhering to this interface in you application decouples your application and the actual thesaurus. This makes unit testing easy because it allows you to swap a remote and a local implementation. It also makes it easy to switch from a simple, static implementation based on a csv file to a more complete implementation using your relational database of choice. One of the main goals of this project is to be able to build an application that can use thesauri or vocabularies without knowing upfront what these might be or where they might come from. This could be for an application that allows cataloguing things, but where it can be expected that different instances will require different thesauri or would need to be able to talk to existing vocabulary systems.