RDA Working Group on Multilingual Controlled Vocabularies & their alignment

[rowan.brownlee]

Hi all - FYI

A new working group on multilingual controlled vocabularies in Social Sciences and Humanities is starting in the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The group will work towards alignment of multilingual vocabularies in SSH through developing recommendations for methodology to create and update multilingual vocabularies in SSH and the best practices to FAIRify the vocabularies and their versions. The Group’s Case Statement is open for Community Review  and the co-chairs of the Group (Arnaud Gingold, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, and Gema Bueno-de-la-Fuente) kindly invite all interested colleagues to engage.  The Community Review is open until June 29, 2024.

 The Case Statement is available for Community Review here: https://www.rd-alliance.org/rationale/alignment-of-multilingual-vocabularies-in-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-wg/

To become a member of the Working Group, please see: https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/alignment-of-multilingual-vocabularies-in-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-wg/

rowan

[rowan.brownlee]

Hi all,

The new Research Data Alliance working group Alignment of Multilingual Vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities WG kicks off its activities on Thursday, September 26. The working group will work towards two main outputs (1) Recommendations for creating and extending multilingual and multicultural vocabularies in the SSH and (2) Recommendations for FAIRifying and versioning of multilingual vocabularies. More information about the working group, including its Case Statement, is available on the RDA website (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/alignment-of-multilingual-vocabularies-in-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-wg/ )

The kick-off meeting will serve as an occasion to introduce the new working group, its background, co-chairs, and work plans. It will also be an occasion for members to get to know each other, and for new members to join. The kick off meeting takes place on Thursday, September 26, 7:00UTC-8:30UTC. To registering for the kick-off meeting, please contact Liise Lehtsalu from RDA Europe/RDA TIGER (liise.lehtsalu@rda-foundation.org).

You are welcome to attend or to forward this invitation to colleagues who may be interested.

thanks

rowan

[rowan.brownlee]

Hi all,

Recent blog post & video available online.  Introduces the group & provides an overview of aims.

Extract follows

The RDA Alignment of Multilingual Vocabularies in the Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (SSH Vocabs) intends to address the challenges and opportunities related to the creation, management, updating, and interoperability of multilingual controlled vocabularies for topics proper to the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The Group is at the beginning of their work cycle and needs interested members to join and help them meet their goals. Could you contribute? Learn more about the SSH Vocabs Working Groups and how you can get involved. 

rowan