[Open-education] [Linkedup-public] question about vocabulary on research topics

Wed May 28 15:10:55 UTC 2014

Hi Elena,

from what I can see, there are quite a lot of vocabularies in use, 
ranging from home-grown taxonomies to more general ones, down to simple 
keywords/terms (unfortunately). It's also hard to nail down "the" 
vocabulary, as the vocabularies are often domain-specific. Some 
cross-domain ones which might be useful include, for instance, the 
UNESCO Thesaurus (http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/, available in 
SKOS as well), or UMBEL (http://umbel.org/specifications/vocabulary).

Domain-specific examples include for instance the ACM Computing 
Classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012, also 
available in SKOS) or vocabularies like SNOMED or MESH in the medical 
domain.

Hope that helps!

Best,

Stefan

On 28.05.2014 01:09, Elena González-Blanco wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We are working on a project on linked data for our university. We are
> having some discussions to organize the topics or research and I
> would like to ask if there is a controlled vocabulary to organize
> "research topics" or which patterns are usually followed in the
> projects you know (apart from letting users introduce free
> keywords...). best regards
>
> Elena González-Blanco
>
>
>
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