[ckan-discuss] Topic list
p.romain at cg33.fr
p.romain at cg33.fr
Fri Jun 15 08:31:48 BST 2012
Hi all,
Yes I agree Eurovoc is the best candidate as long as there are available
alignement with existing vocabularies or undergoing plans to do so.
"we could implement a select dropdown that offers the subset to the end
user but offer him the ability to describe its dataset with the top-level
of this vocabulary".
The idea would be to have a select box that has the 22 eurovoc top topics.
When the user selects one a seb select box is filled with all the subtopic
link to the top topic.
However if selecting a top topic should be a mandatory field, selecting a
sub toping could be an option.
Regarding the IPTC topics I was not aware that there were available as in
a skos version. that's interesting. However I would trust more the EU
agency maintaining the eurovoc vocabulary (plus the translation aspect)
than the IPTC agency but I might be wrong.
@Pablo : are you currently implementing this voc in your CKAN instance ?
Cordialement,
Pascal Romain
Chef de projet informatique documentaire
Service Projets Etudes Conseils
Direction des Systèmes d'Information
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De : Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com>
A : "Plantinga, Edo" <Edo.Plantinga at koop.wmrijk.nl>
Cc : p.romain at cg33.fr, ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Date : 14/06/2012 14:39
Objet : Re: [ckan-discuss] Topic list (vocabulary/valuelist)
forclassifyingdatasets .
What about IPTC Media Topics? Used extensively for news. 17 top level
terms, up to 5 levels of subtopics
http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/mediatopic
Available in several formats:
http://iptc.cms.apa.at/site/NewsCodes/View_NewsCodes#medtop
Cheers,
Pablo
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Plantinga, Edo <
Edo.Plantinga at koop.wmrijk.nl> wrote:
Hi Pascal & David,
I agree on the importance of having a value list that offers unambiguous
definitions. And international translations are definitely a bonus. I also
agree with you and David that the number number of topics that are
displayed to a user should be limited. A maximum of around 12 *displayed
to the visitor* would be ideal: I agree with David on that. The EUROVOC
offers 22 topics. However, I guess this will not be such a big problem,
since it is likely that not all topics will be filled when a dataportal
contains fewer than say, 5000 datasets (and for larger dataportals, having
22 topics may be justifiable). Furthermore, for large data portals a
visitor will most likely perform a search on a specific keyword, and then
filter down based on topics (using faceted search). It is unlikely that a
specific keyword will have hits in each topic, so the topics list (facets)
displayed will be less than the full 22 topics. For example: if a visitor
would search on "Car", one would expect hits in the TRANSPORT or
ENVIRONMENT (etc) topics, but not in the POLITICS (etc) topics, limiting
the number of topics displayed to the visitor.
Regarding your comment about tagging datasets with 72 GEOGRAPHY: I think
having a geo component in a dataset does not automatically classify it in
that category. For many geo datasets 48 TRANSPORT, 52 ENVIRONMENT or 56
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES will make more sense.
@Pascal: So from your response: do I gather you agree that Eurovoc is the
best option to use?
I am not sure if I follow what you mean when you say:
"we could implement a select dropdown that offers the subset to the end
user but offer him the ability to describe its dataset with the top-level
of this vocabulary". Could you elaborate?
Regards,
Edo Plantinga
data.overheid.nl
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: p.romain at cg33.fr [mailto:p.romain at cg33.fr]
Verzonden: woensdag 13 juni 2012 12:34
Aan: Plantinga, Edo
CC: ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Onderwerp: Re: [ckan-discuss] Topic list (vocabulary/valuelist)
forclassifyingdatasets .
Hi Edo,
I totally agree with you. Eurovoc is a more suitable vocabulary but what
matters is the possible alignement those vocabularies offer.
For example the term gezondheidszorg
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?cp=3866&langcode=nl&ns=1refers
to an exact match in Eurovoc, Agrovoc and to a close match to dbpedia.
No one today would use the eurovoc 72 geography category to describe an
opendata dataset including geolocalised data and the issue we are facing
in my opinion is the number of thematic entries we offer to the end user :
too many and we lose them, too little and we might confuse them.
As a response to this issue we could implement a select dropdown that
offers the subset to the end user but offer him the ability to describe
its dataset with the top-level of this vocabulary
That's the way we currently go with our work on Ckan. We could probably
share some code in that matter, couldn't we ?
Best,
Pascal Romain
Chef de projet informatique documentaire
Service Projets Etudes Conseils
Direction des Systèmes d'Information
05 56 99 33 33 poste 6643
@datalocale
De : "Plantinga, Edo" <Edo.Plantinga at koop.wmrijk.nl>
A : <ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
Date : 13/06/2012 12:15
Objet : Re: [ckan-discuss] Topic list (vocabulary/valuelist) for
classifyingdatasets .
Envoyé par : ckan-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org
Hi Pascal,
Thank you for your swift response.
Looking at the GEMET vocabulary, it seems to be limited to geographic
datasets. Naturally, many open datasets are geographic datasets.
However, there are also many datasets outside this domain. How would you
classify the datasets on the EU portal that are now under the current
categories Finance and Budgeting, Education and Communication, Economy
and Industry, Social Questions
Population & Health? The GEMET vocabulary does not seem to be suitable
for this.
A subset of the EUROVOC (while still not perfect, looking at the
datasets we have), seems to be a better fit for datasets outside the geo
domain, in my opinion. I can see a fairly big overlap between the
current EU portal topics and the EUROVOC topics, by the way.
These are the EUROVOC categories I am referring to, to avoid confusion.
04 POLITICS 08 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 10 EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 12
LAW 16 ECONOMICS 20 TRADE 24 FINANCE 28 SOCIAL QUESTIONS 32
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS 36 SCIENCE 40 BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
44 EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS 48 TRANSPORT 52 ENVIRONMENT 56
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES 60 AGRI-FOODSTUFFS 64 PRODUCTION,
TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH 66 ENERGY 68 INDUSTRY 72 GEOGRAPHY 76
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
The advantage of EUROVOC is that there are subcategories that can be
used for classifying datasets that do not fall into an obvious category.
For example: under what category should a hospital quality dataset fall?
Searching on 'Hospital' on the EUROVOC site gives a search result of
health policies of "MT 2841 HEALTH", so according to EUROVOC this falls
under "28 SOCIAL QUESTIONS". Still not perfect, but hey, no
catagorization system will be.
I'd be interested to hear your take on this.
Best regards,
Edo Plantinga - Data.overheid.nl
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