The #words we use to talk about #nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
Once upon a time, the #English #language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our #vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the natural world they describe.
We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/

A Strategic Community #Roadmap for an #Australian #FAIR #Vocabulary Ecosystem

https://doi.org/10.25911/N6K8-F540

Three years ago, I participated in a very engaged workshop at #ANU on #vocabularies for FAIR #data management. It sharpened how I think about vocabularies. I now see them primarily as a #KnowledgeTransfer tool for representing domain expertise in an actionable form. And I think we do a terrible job both at highlighting how critical they are (particularly in an age where trusted expertise is harder to find) and also at making them easier for others to find and reuse.

I picture this scenario. A student is about to start collecting data for their thesis. They need to make choices about what variables to observe or what questions to ask participants, and they need to think about how they want to represent the results to support their analysis. In the ideal case, the actual data collecting effort is about populating an imagined but initially empty data matrix. If they could be assisted to find the best structured and most widely used (in their domain) vocabularies for any categorical values in their data, it would be possible to generate that template matrix with in-built validation tools, etc. The data they finally collect would have most of its metadata already defined and would be properly interoperable with data collected by others in their domain. Meta-analysis would be much simpler.

I am interested in why tools like this don't really exist, or at least why they are not mainstream. I think it's because vocabularies are seen as such an ultra-nerdy subset of the nerdy topic of #metadata rather than presented as an opportunity to stand on the shoulders of others. What can be done to make them more friendly and intuitive for such purposes?

Finally, after way too many struggles, we have a report and recommendations from from that meeting in 2022. I tried to add some of these ideas to the final product as best I could.

👉 Visit our posters #1, #21 and #27 at #CoRDI2025 ✨

#nfdirocks #NFDI4Objects #RDM #Vocabularies #objectbiography #archaeology #heritage #NFDI #LOD #helpdesk
@fthierygeo @anja_g_werder @NFDI4Memory @nfdi4ing @daphne @mardi @nfdi4culture

ℹ️ Das 2. Treffen des #NFDI4Objects #CommunityClusters #AuthorityFiles and Community-driven #Vocabularies findet am 14. Mai 2025, 14:00 bis 15:00 Uhr, via Zoom https://dainst-org.zoom.us/j/99974415036?pwd=UVc3SmJ4Y01HaXdEc3Y3M2lzOFpMUT09 statt.

💡 Im Mittelpunkt steht der in #TA4 etwickelte #Thesaurus für #Konservierung und #Restaurierung archäologischer #Kulturgüter. Er enthält Begriffe für #Zustandserfassung und #Beschreibung von #Maßnahmen, u. a. Bezeichnungen zu #Materialien und #Werkzeugen, #Herstellungstechnik und #Gebrauch der #Objekte.

Planning #FAIR packaging of #plant #phenomics #ResearchData - our current focus is on #ROCrate with #JsonLD to describe domain concepts using #MIAPPE, likely #SSN for sensors, #ProvO (or just #ISA) for provenance, public #vocabularies for each partner's measurement types, etc. and lots of image and CSV files.

#MachineLearning is a key use for the #data.

Should we also be looking at #Croissant?

If so, does anyone have experience of combining Croissant and RO-Crate?

Any insights welcomed.

Here are the slides (in german) from the #GND-Forum "NFDI, FID & Co" about the #researchdata in @nfdi4objects. They include an overview about the #heterogenous data of our consortium, the usage of #terminologies and our work to #harmonize the #archaelogical and #object data to make them #fair, such as the development of a #minimumdata recommendation and a #cidoccrm based #datamodel for the #objectbiography. https://zenodo.org/records/14359746
#nfdirocks #nfdi #authorityfiles #vocabularies #LIDO

The recording and slides for my "What's New in Skosmos 3" meetup presentation have been published on the ISKO UK event page: https://iskouk.org/event-5636362

Direct link to recording in YouTube: https://youtu.be/2mLf087KfZc

#Skosmos #SKOS #vocabularies #thesaurus #classification #ISKO

Today I will present "What's New in Skosmos 3" 17:30 UTC (18:30 BST) at the ISKO UK online Meetup. Free registration here:

https://iskouk.org/event-5636362

Skosmos is an open source tool for publishing SKOS controlled vocabularies on the web.
The upcoming Skosmos 3 release, focuses on reimplementing the user interface with modern frameworks. I will demonstrate the current status of Skosmos 3, discuss its impact on deployments and end users.

#Skosmos #SKOS #vocabularies #thesaurus #classification #ISKO

Find more about #EKAW24 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 on
Semantic Knowledge Modeling -
Ontologies & Vocabularies
at https://metaphacts.com/ekaw24-semantic-modeling-tutorial

#SemanticModeling #Ontologies #Vocabularies #KnowledgeEngineering #Tutorial

Jetzt anmelden für das Forum am 20. und 21. März von #NFDI4Culture , das von der Task Area 2 veranstaltet wird. Es wird diesmal um das NFDI-übergreifende Thema „Brücken schlagen zwischen Terminologien“ gehen! #NFDI #vocabularies #Vokabulare #Normdaten

https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E5304

Surveys and interviews expose the complex vocabulary of data processing and documentation. Chao etal 2015 https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23184 #Infromatics #Vocabularies #HowToScience #MetaData

Click on the SO term in the “Transgenic product class” field of an Allele Report get a list of all transgenes encoding a particular type of gene product.
On the Term Report (located in the #Vocabularies tool http://flybase.org/vocabularies), you can click on the Alleles button to get a hit list of all of all the matching transgenic alleles.
#FlyBaseTootorial #TransgenicProductClass #SequenceOntology

Next in our series on #GovTech data services, we highlight the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) Reference Data Codes Register.

Managing Reference Data to support other services, Open Data and industry users.

https://www.epimorphics.com/projects/fsa-codes/

#OpenData #Vocabularies #CodeLists #DataArchitecture #PublicSector #ReferenceData #Codes #Register.

Webinar May 9th: "FAIR data for Heritage Science".
I and Barbro Bornsäter (Uppsala University Library) will be presenting results from our R&D project at Swedish National Heritage Board. Join us to discuss #FAIRdata #HeritageScience #Vocabularies #OpenScience
https://www.raa.se/in-english/events-seminars-and-cultural-experiences/fair-data-for-heritage-science/

RT @EU_opendata: What is #LinkedOpenData?

#OpenData #Visuals #Vocabularies

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1557750253511757826

Bartoc yesterday released FAST, the Federated Asynchronous Search Tool for searching across different controlled vocabularies (built with #python #graphene #GraphQL #Django): https://bartoc-fast.ub.unibas.ch/bartocfast/

It is described as "a strategic shift from uploading as many #Skos #vocabularies as possible to our #Skosmos instance (and thus producing duplicates) to fetching vocabularies from original sources via #API." (https://twitter.com/BARTOC_UBBasel/status/1168963143403528192)

Looking into #OmekaS, and the manual says that I can import custom #vocabularies in #RDF format. I feel like too much resolution is lost in dublin core model that comes with it by default, but don't know of good alternatives. Could someone recommend some?

Simplified Vocabularies: Political Correctness and Thought Control
Vivian Cook

http://www.viviancook.uk/Words/WordTexts/TXTSimplifiedVocabulary.htm

toot ! 🐘

#simplified #vocabularies #PoliticalCorrect #ThoughtControl
#English #language
#kepeken_pona #toki #Inli #nimi