diSKOSsing
Guus Lange
We would highly welcome your participation in the Session/Workshop/Round Table on the structuring thesauri using SKOS, that Matthias Lang and I organize at the CAA2012 Soton meeting . This will take place on Wednesday March 28, from 11.15 – 13.15 in the Theme 4, DATA 2 session called
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The use of standardized vocabularies in archaeology |
Our
2-hour session/workshop/Round Table addresses the need for using RDF/SKOS and how to make
optimal use of it facilitating interoperability in the long run.
In the first half four presentations are given by different speakers showing examples of the use of SKOS in different contexts.
In the second half we will discuss how to proceed in such a way that our different thesauri become mutually accessible and tools can be shared.
The wish to make data re-usable by a wider audience have made institutions world wide aware of the need to standardize their vocabularies. In archaeology the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data sessions at the CAA conferences from 2009-2011 were seminal in introducing the new challenge with the accompanying new methodologies and techniques to us. We feel that we will soon enter a new phase where many of the more local oriented (in space or specialisation) institutes will follow.
As SKOSifying thesauri is not a self-explaining/common sense type of activity and many choices are involved it is not so self evident that searchers will find relevant information across different(ly organized) thesauri. It is important to recapitulate now just where we are and what tools are available.
Our session boasts four presentationsOn Implementing and using SKOS in simple databases Matthias Lang
Thesauri, Open Data and the (re)use of open information in Cultural Heritage Achille Felicetti (Hors Concours)
PICO
thesaurus, a semantic solution for CulturaItalia project Matteo Lorenzini
Experiences with SKOS from the STAR and STELLAR Projects Douglas Tudhope, Ceri Binding, Phil Carlisle, Keith May, Andreas Vlachidis
We hope to see you there and help us with discussing the options
Matthias Lang / Guus Lange