10.5281/zenodo.2540478
https://zenodo.org/records/2540478
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Piotrowski, Michael
Michael
Piotrowski
0000-0003-3307-5386
Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany
Colavizza, Giovanni
Giovanni
Colavizza
DHLab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Thiery, Florian
Florian
Thiery
0000-0002-3246-3531
i3mainz, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany
Bruhn, Kai-Christian
Kai-Christian
Bruhn
0000-0001-8322-1260
i3mainz, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany
The Labeling System - A New Approach to Overcome the Vocabulary Bottleneck
Zenodo
2014
2014-09-10
eng
Presentation
10.1145/2657480.2657482
10.5281/zenodo.2540477
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Shared controlled vocabularies are a prerequisite for collaborative annotation and semantic interchange. The creation and maintenance of such vocabularies is, however, time-consuming and expensive. The diversity of research questions in the humanities makes it virtually impossible to create shared controlled vocabularies that cover a wide range of potential applications and satisfy the needs of diverse stakeholders. In this paper we present a novel conceptual approach for mitigating these problems. We propose that projects define their own vocabularies as needed and link the vocabulary terms to one or more concepts in a reference thesaurus, so that the project-specific term effectively serves as a "label" for a set of shared concepts. We also describe the implementation of this approach in the Labeling System. The Labeling System is a Web application that allows users to easily import concepts or create SKOS vocabularies and link the vocabulary terms to concepts from one or more reference thesauri.