Just a word with you. How vocabularies and ontologies increase the findability and reusability of your research. A workshop report
Creators: name: Arndt, Susanne
name: Fuchs, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: terminology
subject: thesaurus
subject: controlled vocabulary
subject: specialized information service
subject: ontology
subject: transport research
subject: mobility research
subject: NFDI
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324254
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2516517
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179797
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63877387

description: Everyone who has ever published a research paper knows this: keywords need to be added to the bibliographic information to describe the content as briefly and precisely as possible. What may seem rather annoying to some is actually the entry into an interesting field of possibilities to make your research more findable. The assignment of keywords or even the use of certain words or phrases in the title or abstract helps to make the content easier to find and more visible. A basis for this is provided by the use of controlled vocabularies, i.e. a catalog of predefined terms. Such vocabularies are already used in numerous scientific information systems, such as literature databases like the online catalog of the FID move (www.fid-move.de/en/online-catalogue/) or the Mobility Compass (www.mobility-compas.eu). Here, they enable linking all kinds of entities with each other (e.g. publications, data sets) to form a networked structure and thus providing better findability of resources and supporting the users’ information retrieval. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. The easier it is to interpret the contents of publications in the context of various applications, the better they can be linked to other results and thus increase their reusability. Particularly in the area of research data, there is very high potential here for the entire cycle from data collection to data publication. Accordingly, there are already numerous proposals or standards for describing individual research data. However, since these often originate institutionally and are in part not easily machine-readable, data silos still form or the effort required to link different research data is still high. In the context of NFDI4Ing, ontologies such as ListDB Onto (www.gitlab.com/listdb/onto) are therefore being developed and made available in close collaboration with researchers. The aim of those ontologies is supporting researchers in making their data available and reusing it. For example, ListDB Onto enables the networked description of video data, associated processes, people involved or tools used. It thus forms an important building block for interoperability between different video-related metadata. The session is a workshop report, which summarizes the several years of experience of the presenters in the creation and integration of controlled vocabularies and ontologies. On the one hand, the added values and usage scenarios for science will be discussed. On the other hand, challenges and lessons learned in building vocabularies will be elaborated. Thus, the talk addresses researchers as well as employees in scientific infrastructures.
description: {"references": ["Arndt, Susanne et al. (2023) Videodaten in der Verkehrsforschung \u2013 besser auffind- und nachnutzbar dank der neuen Ontologie ListDB Onto. https://doi.org/10.26128/2023.40", "Wolff, Stefan et al. (2021) The Mobility Compass: a VIVO-based approach for exploring interdisciplinary research networks https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/5642"]}