Controlled vocabulary with Vocabs

ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Controlled vocabulary with Vocabs Massimiliano Carloni & Martina Trognitz Community Cluster "Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies“ –NFDI4Objects Online, 21 October 2025 ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Who we are Massimiliano Carloni •Classical Philology in Pisa àDigital Humanities •Since 2021 at Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) in Vienna •Part of the ARCHE team and main responsible for ACDH/DARIAH-EU Vocabs Services •Leading WP3 „Facilitating Discoverability of and Access to Humanities Resources“ in EU infrastructure project ATRIUM Martina Trognitz •Computational Linguistics & Classical Archaeology in Heidelberg àDigital Humanities •2012-2017 at German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, Project IANUS [IT-Empfehlungen] •Since 2017 at Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) in Vienna [ARCHE] •Head of Preservation and Data Archiving (PANDA) team ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Vocabs Services •Platform for controlled vocabularies •Taxonomies •Thesauri •(Half-remodelled) folksonomies •... •Based on the open source software Skosmos •Mostly pertaining to the area of arts & humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences (àmore on this later) •In case you are uncertain whether your vocabulary can be published here, just ask! ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Where do you find Vocabs? •The main browser is available at vocabs.dariah.eu •Actually, you can access this website in the ACDH domain too: vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at •It’s exactly the same instance: that’s why we call it the ACDH/DARIAH instance CONTACT from all Skosmos Vocabulary Categories ISO 639-1 Language Codes ISO 639-3 Language Codes ÖFOS 2012. Austrian Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012 GENERAL CONCEPTS Backbone Thesaurus TaDiRAH: Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities META THESAURUS Backbone Thesaurus DYAS Humanities Thesaurus GEMET iDAI.world Thesaurus PARTHENOS Vocabularies BACKBONE THESAURUS DHA Taxonomy DYAS Humanities Thesaurus PARTHENOS Vocabularies TaDiRAH: Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities HUMANITIES IconclassART HISTORY INDIGO Graffiti Thesaurus legalkraus-Taxonomie travel!digital Thesaurus CULTURAL HISTORY DEFC Thesaurus Iron-Age-Danube Thesaurus OeAI Thesaurus - Cultural Time Periods OeAI Thesaurus - Materials ARCHAEOLOGY Digital Hornbostel & Sachs Classification of Musical InstrumentsMUSICOLOGY VICAV Taxonomy of Arabic DialectsLINGUISTICS ARCHE access restrictions ARCHE Licenses ARCHE life cycle status ARCHE OAI Sets ARCHE Resource Type Category ARCHE GRAPHIS Image RegionMISCELLANEOUS ACDH-CH Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna T: +43 1 51581-2200 E: [email protected] HELPDESK ACDH-CH runs a helpdesk offering advice for questions related to various digital humanities topics. ASK US! Vocabs services In many areas of scholarly work, controlled vocabularies (gazetteers, thesauri, etc.) play a crucial role as a stable reference for resources and for ensuring interoperability between disparate projects and their data. The ACDH-CH provides a suite of Vocabs services that allow for collaborative creation, maintenance and publication of vocabularies and taxonomies of any kind. English Search Vocabularies About Editor API Help | Interface language: English × ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT SSH Vocabulary Commons •Second instance of Vocabs, developed in the context of SSHOC (Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud ànow SSH Open Cluster) •Interface and main characteristics of ACDH/DARIAH instance •But different data! •Depending on origin and scope of your vocabulary, it might be published in one or the other instance CONTACT from all Skosmos Vocabulary Categories BIBO Publication Type EOSC Resource Category, Subcategory (and Supercategory) EOSC Resource Geographical Availability EOSC Resource Life Cycle Status EOSC Resource Technology Readiness Level IANA Media Types Intended audience Invocation type SPDX Software License SSH Open Marketplace Format SSH Open Marketplace Keyword SSK Standard SSH OPEN MARKETPLACE IANA Media Types Invocation type SPDX Software License SSH CONVERSION HUB Formats of training resources Intended audience SPDX Software License Status of training resources SSH TRAINING DISCOVERY TOOLKIT SSHOC Multilingual Data Stewardship Terminology SSHOC Multilingual Metadata SSHOC CLARIN taxonomy for Linguistic Subjects CLARIN taxonomy for tools and services tasks CLARIN SERVICE DESCRIPTION ACDH-CH Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna T: +43 1 51581-2200 E: [email protected] HELPDESK ACDH-CH runs a helpdesk offering advice for questions related to various digital humanities topics. ASK US! Vocabs services In many areas of scholarly work, controlled vocabularies (gazetteers, thesauri, etc.) play a crucial role as a stable reference for resources and for ensuring interoperability between disparate projects and their data. The ACDH-CH provides a suite of Vocabs services that allow for collaborative creation, maintenance and publication of vocabularies and taxonomies of any kind. English Search Vocabularies About Editor API Help | Interface language: English × ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Navigating the Vocabs interface •Categories •Multilingual interface •Search •Will search in vocabulary and concept names •But not in the metadata of the vocabulary àlimitation to be addressed with the Skosmos developer community ACDH –AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Some of the categories More categories can be added depending on specific needs General Concepts ISO 639 -1, ISO 639-3, Austrian Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012 Meta Thesaurus Backbone Thesaurus, TaDiRAH Backbone Thesaurus Backbone Thesaurus, GEMET, iDAI.world Thesaurus ... Humanities DHA Taxonomy, PARTHENOS Vocabularies, TaDiRAH ... Art History Iconclass Cultural History INDIGO Graffiti Thesaurus, legalkraus -Taxonomie, travel!digital Thesaurus Archaeology DEFC Thesaurus, OeAI Thesaurus - Cultural Time Periods ... Musicology Digital Hornbostel & Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments Linguistics VICAV Taxonomy of Arabic Dialects ARCHE ARCHE access restrictions, ARCHE licenses etc. ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Audience •Organizations (research institutes / ERICs / universities / GLAM sector / ...) •Information professionals / data curators / ... •Research projects & researchers •Policy makers •Discovery systems •àAPI (more about it later) ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT SKOS •Simple Knowledge Organization System [Reference] [Primer] •W3C Recommendation “for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Web” •Data model supported by Vocabs •Serializations available on Vocabs •RDF/XML •Turtle (TTL) ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Vocabs Editor •vocabseditor.acdh.oeaw.ac.at •A platform to create, edit, and export SKOS vocabularies •You can create a new vocabulary •You can upload an existing vocabulary •Supports all the main features of SKOS •Allows for collaborative editing •More users/groups can have access to the same vocabulary •Automatically validated àReady for ingestion into Vocabs ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Vocabs Editor ACDH Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna T: +43 1 51581-2200 E: acdh(at)oeaw.ac.at HELPDESK ACDH runs a helpdesk offering advice for questions related to various digital humanities topics. ASK US! Imprint OeAI Thesaurus - Materials Add Concept Add Collection ceramic crushed sherd concrete enamel glass coloured glass colourless glass (Roman) faience opaque glass vulcanic glass obsidian volcanic ash metal alloy billon brass bronze electrum potin steel white metal ! aluminium copper gold iron lead nickel platinum silver tin titanium zinc zirconium mineral alabaster (gypsum) aluminosilicate amethyst biotite calcite calcium calcium carbonate chlorite cinnabar (mineral) diamond dolomite (mineral) feldspar graphite gypsum hematite iron oxide lapis lazuli magnesium malachite mica muscovite onyx potassium sulfate quartz quartz sand serpentine silica sodium chloride sodium sulfate turquoise (mineral) mortar cement mortar lime mortar ore organic bone antler bone (animal) bone (human) coral dung eggshell feather fibre bast canvas cardboard flax hemp paper papyrus reed hair hair (animal) fur hair (human) horn keratin resin amber pitch shell bivalve shell gastropod shell skin animal skin human skin leather parchment straw textile cotton linen silk wool tooth ivory tooth (animal) tooth (human) wax wood charcoal pigment ! cinnabar (pigment) Egyptian blue plaster plastic (synthetic) restoration chemicals Araldite Araldite 2020 Cosmoloid Cyclododecane Cyclododecane spray EDTA Klucel Paraloid Paraloid B48N Paraloid B72 rock agate alabaster (calcite) almandine amphibolite andesite anorthosite aplite basalt bluestone breccia calcarenite carnelian chalcedony chert conglomerate diorite granodiorite quartz-diorite dolomite (rock) flint (rock) gabbro gemstone gneiss granite rose granite greenstone greywacke harzburgite illite jasper limestone marble aphrodisian marble calcitic marble ! carrara marble celticum marble chalcidic marble claudianum marble Dokimeion marble ! dolomitic marble ! ephesian marble hymettian marble lacedaemonian marble lucullan marble naxian marble numidian marble parian marble pavonazzetto marble pentelic marble proconnesian marble thasian marble norite Nubian sandstone peperino poros porphyry pyroxenite quartzite radiolarite rock crystal sandstone sardonyx schist chlorite schist clay schist talc schist soluble salt steatite syenite travertine tuff wehrlite sediment clay Aswan pink clay calcareous clay kaolin marl marl clay (Egyptian) montmorillonite Nile silt non-calcareous clay terracotta loam sand silt sinter slag stucco skos:ConceptScheme OeAI Thesaurus - Materials  |  dc:title @en OeAI Thesaurus - Materials dc:title @de OeAI Thesaurus - Materialien identifier https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/oeai-materials/ dc:creator Micheline Welte dc:description @en Subset of the OeAI Thesaurus for materials. dc:language dc:subject version 1.0.2 dc:publisher OeAI dct:license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ number of concepts 222 dct:created May 19, 2020, 7:41 a.m. dct:modified July 23, 2025, 12:16 p.m. created by mwelte curator(s) achancy mwelte download RDF/XML Turtle export async RDF/XML Turtle Change history Remove legacy ids Remove Skos Notations ACDH Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna T: +43 1 51581-2200 E: acdh(at)oeaw.ac.at HELPDESK ACDH runs a helpdesk offering advice for questions related to various digital humanities topics. ASK US! Imprint OeAI Thesaurus - Materials Add Concept Add Collection ceramic crushed sherd concrete enamel glass coloured glass colourless glass (Roman) faience opaque glass vulcanic glass obsidian volcanic ash metal alloy billon brass bronze electrum potin steel white metal ! aluminium copper gold iron lead nickel platinum silver tin titanium zinc zirconium mineral alabaster (gypsum) aluminosilicate amethyst biotite calcite calcium calcium carbonate chlorite cinnabar (mineral) diamond dolomite (mineral) feldspar graphite gypsum hematite iron oxide lapis lazuli magnesium malachite mica muscovite onyx potassium sulfate quartz quartz sand serpentine silica sodium chloride sodium sulfate turquoise (mineral) mortar cement mortar lime mortar ore organic bone antler bone (animal) bone (human) coral dung eggshell feather fibre bast canvas cardboard flax hemp paper papyrus reed hair hair (animal) fur hair (human) horn keratin resin amber pitch shell bivalve shell gastropod shell skin animal skin human skin leather parchment straw textile cotton linen silk wool tooth ivory tooth (animal) tooth (human) wax wood charcoal pigment ! cinnabar (pigment) Egyptian blue plaster plastic (synthetic) restoration chemicals Araldite Araldite 2020 Cosmoloid Cyclododecane Cyclododecane spray EDTA Klucel Paraloid Paraloid B48N Paraloid B72 rock agate alabaster (calcite) almandine amphibolite andesite anorthosite aplite basalt bluestone breccia calcarenite carnelian chalcedony chert conglomerate diorite granodiorite quartz-diorite dolomite (rock) flint (rock) gabbro gemstone gneiss granite rose granite greenstone greywacke harzburgite illite jasper limestone marble aphrodisian marble calcitic marble ! carrara marble celticum marble chalcidic marble claudianum marble Dokimeion marble ! dolomitic marble ! ephesian marble hymettian marble lacedaemonian marble lucullan marble naxian marble numidian marble parian marble pavonazzetto marble pentelic marble proconnesian marble thasian marble norite Nubian sandstone peperino poros porphyry pyroxenite quartzite radiolarite rock crystal sandstone sardonyx schist chlorite schist clay schist talc schist soluble salt steatite syenite travertine tuff wehrlite sediment clay Aswan pink clay calcareous clay kaolin marl marl clay (Egyptian) montmorillonite Nile silt non-calcareous clay terracotta loam sand silt sinter slag stucco skos:Concept crushed sherd  |  skos:prefLabel @en crushed sherd skos:prefLabel @de Schamott skos:altLabel @en grog skos:altLabel @de Schamottemehl skos:altLabel @en chamotte skos:prefLabel @tr Şamot skos:inScheme OeAI Thesaurus - Materials skos:definition @en Pottery sherds that have been crushed for use as a mixture additive. skos:definition @de Freie Übersetzung aus der englischen Definition: Tonscherben, die zur Verwendung als Mischungszusatz zerkleinert wurden. skos:broader ceramic skos:exactMatch http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300264869 dct:created March 22, 2023, 12:03 p.m. dct:modified Aug. 7, 2025, 9:23 a.m. created by mwelte download this concept RDF/XML Turtle Curation History ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Curation & Support •Vocabs Services are not only technical tools •They also include a team that supports your planning, creation, and publication efforts from the very first moment •For example: •Why do you need a controlled vocabulary? •How to start with the development? •Modeling choices (flat-deep hierarchy, collections etc.) •How to best maintain the vocabulary in the future ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Start with a spreadsheet Conversion into SKOS through Python scripts, OpenRefine templates etc. Import into Vocabs Editor + Refinement Test on Vocabs staging instance ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT „Customizing“ a vocabulary •GRAPHIS Image Region vocabulary •Developed to support an application to annotate image regions and store the annotations in the IPTC metadata [Source code] [Paper] (also contains a quick introduction to Vocabs) ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT „Customizing“ a vocabulary •Based on the Image Region Role vocabulary from IPTC •Selects a subset of terms from the existing vocabulary •Adds new terms specifically related to the INDIGO project •e.g. „graffito“ •How best to handle this process? •Add indication of sources •Create mapping relations with existing resource •A term introduced by GRAPHIS („anonymised“) was then welcomed into the official IPTC vocabulary ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Documentation •Extensive documentation for Vocabs and controlled vocabularies in preparation •For example: •Best practices for the creation of controlled vocabularies •Checklist (mostly used internally) for curating vocabularies ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Some collaborations Project for the digitization of contemporary graffiti on the Donaukanal in Vienna Open source database software to acquire, edit and manage research data from history, archaeology, cultural heritage etc. Austrian Archaeological Institute Maintaining the SKOS version of Fields of Sciences ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT TaDiRAH •https://tadirah.info •Taxonomy of digital research activities in the Humanities •Special focus on multilinguality •Includes French, German, Italian, Japanese etc. •Used in a wide variety of contexts •Go to vocabulary à https://vocabs.dariah.eu/tad irah/ ACDH – AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES WWW.OEAW.AC.AT Legal Kraus https://www.kraus.wienbibliothek. at/legalkraus/ Project on the legal papers by Austrian satirist Karl Kraus (1874‒1936) Cooperation between the ACDH, the Vienna City Library, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History The ACDH provided the technical framework, developed the data model for the digital edition, and published the vocabulary used for classifying the papers Mögliche Einstiege 700 Vorlesungen von Karl Kraus Rechtsakten Karl Kraus baut auf Karl Kraus Online, einem Kooperationsprojekt der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus mit dem ehemaligen Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biografie (2005–2018), auf. Der Rechtsaktenbestand wurde zu der hier vorliegenden Edition aufbereitet und überschrieb somit die ältere Fassung. Die 700 Vorlesungen hingegen liegen noch in der alten Version vor und sind hier zu finden: https://www.kraus.wienbibliothek.at/der-vorleser Karl Kraus: Rechtsakten der Kanzlei Oskar Samek. Wissenschaftliche Edition hg. v. Johannes Knüchel und Isabel Langkabel, auf Grundlage der Vorarbeiten Katharina Pragers, unter Mitarbeit von Laura Untner, Andrea Ortner, Ingo Börner und Vanessa Hannesschläger (Wien 2022, 2025) Kontakt Projektleitung: Katharina Prager [email protected] Wienbibliothek im Rathaus 1010 Wien, Bartensteingasse 9, 1. Stock Isabel Langkabel [email protected] Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, 1010 Wien, Rathaus, Stiege 6 Impressum Oskar Samek Fallstatistik Beiträge Verlage Sozialdemokratie SucheProjekt Akten-Edition Visualisierungen Register Handapparat