Åsa M LarssonNov 24, 2022
Good day at work. Held a workshop in the morning with my colleagues at the #Heritage Laboratory showing them how to use controlled vocabularies, finding persistent IDs and using #Zenodo.
Afternoon I took part in a digital seminar for PhD students on #OpenScience and #FAIRdata. Good discussions about the importance of doing right from the start - and using standards.
Show threadÅsa M Larsson
We have an internal project to see what is required for individual researchers in Heritage Science to #FAIRify their data. An interesting challenge is that it is often quite complicated for a human user to find the correct "authority" - I.e. term with persistent URL - to use. Vocabulary interfaces will often suggest versions adjusted for the Web, hiding the true RDF authority.
Will try very hard not to use a Cartman meme in future presentations...
Nov 24, 2022 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadKoen Van DaeleNov 25, 2022
@Archasa I find that most researchers are still stuck in the "as long as we use the same label we're fine" phase. Getting them to understand the value of a persistent ID is hard. In our own web apps, easily fixed by good UI/UI (pick the label, store the ID). But not so easy for research projects where they build their own local databases.
Show threadÅsa M LarssonNov 25, 2022
@koenedaele Fantastic. Just making collection management systems implement controlled vocabularies has been a struggle and most don't have a field for URI.
I will say it's not easy being a researcher who wants to do right. There is a jungle of vocabularies. But I was immensely impressed by the Dutch platform that brings many together and we hope to do something similar in Sweden
Show threadKoen Van DaeleNov 25, 2022
@Archasa We build our own software for most things, so we have full control over implementation. Eg. in our inventory you can search (https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/zoeken) by typing a label or browsing the vocabulary, but it gets translated to a call by URI (eg. searching for open air swimming pools) turns into a search for https://id.erfgoed.net/thesauri/erfgoedtypes/1513 (https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten?&bewaringstoestand=1&erfgoedwaarde=true&typologie=https%3A%2F%2Fid.erfgoed.net%2Fthesauri%2Ferfgoedtypes%2F1513).
So people are using the vocab without needing to understand what RDF or SKOS or even a URI is.
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