Infrastructure project
Completed
Crosslinking of specific vocabularies with international reference vocabularies
A sub-project of the National Research Data Infrastructure, located in the NFDI4C consortium work area T2 "Standards, Data Quality, Curation"
Duration
2020 - 2023
Furthermore, the project aims to develop a reusable methodological solution for addressing the interoperability requirements of specialized vocabularies—whether local or tailored to specific project needs. The solution developed is intended to be reusable by other projects. The type and number of projects that adopt this solution will serve as a key performance indicator in the evaluation of NFDI4C.
The project will be carried out using specialized vocabularies in architecture and art as examples. The high level of specificity and broad scope of specialized vocabularies, as well as project-specific priorities, pose a significant challenge for linking them to general terms in international reference vocabularies. This work package will develop a strategy—transferable to other projects—for matching specialized vocabularies as comprehensively and precisely as possible to reference vocabularies while maintaining the fine granularity and breadth required in the technical context, including methods for supplementing them.
The approach is based on the multilingual subject thesaurus—which covers several Eastern European languages—of a digital editorial and publication system for a reference work on architectural monuments and their furnishings in East Central Europe (Digital Dehio), which is linked in a dynamic manner—enabling ongoing, mutually beneficial updates—to the most renowned international subject thesaurus in the field, the AAT, and the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND, http://www.dnb.de/DE/Professionell/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html).
The goal is to make the specialized vocabulary—which is already multilingual and was to be developed within a project context anyway—reusable by a large international community by integrating it into reference applications that are also available as LOD, thereby benefiting this community from improved coverage of specific technical terms.
The activities bundled in this measure are based entirely on existing infrastructures, will strengthen them, and actively incorporate them. The subproject addresses a particularly challenging aspect of the cross-cutting theme of interoperability, as described in FAIR Criterion I2 for the handling of specialized vocabularies: http://www.force11.org/fairprinciples#Annex6-9
Evangelische Friedenskirche in Jauer, Polen. Wolfgang Schekanski / Bildarchiv Herder-Institut, Free access - no reuse
