Table 6.

A comparison of formats for the encoding of different types of knowledge resources

Format	Resource type	Serialization	Libraries available
TMF/TBXa	Terminologies	XML	Yesb
LMFc	Lexica	LMF	No
SKOSd	Thesauri	RDF	Yes (RDF)e
OWLf	Ontologies	several	Yesg
OBOh	Ontologies	own	Yesi
Ontolexj	Lexica relative to ontologies	RDF	Yesk
TMXl	Translation memories	XML	Yesm
XLIFFn	Translation memories	XML	Yeso

‘Libraries available’ refers to whether there is a suitable library for use with this format.

^ahttp://www.tbxinfo.net/

^bhttp://www.tbxinfo.net/tbx-downloads/

^chttp://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/

^dhttps://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/

^ehttps://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/tools

^fhttps://www.w3.org/OWL/

^ghttp://owlapi.sourceforge.net/

^hftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/www/GO.format.obo-1_4.shtml

ⁱhttp://oboedit.org/?page=javadocs

^jhttps://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Final_Model_Specification

^khttps://github.com/cimiano/ontolex/blob/master/Ontologies/ontolex.owl

^lhttp://xml.coverpages.org/tmxSpec971212.html

^mhttp://docs.transifex.com/api/tm/

ⁿhttp://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/xliff-core/xliff-core.html

^ohttp://www.opentag.com/xliff.htm#Resources