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

Thu May 29 21:15:27 UTC 2014

Hi Stephan,

Thanks a lot for the information! I did not know about UMBEL and looks very interesting! Also the UNESCO vocabularies were out of my mind... but now they are in again.
best

Elena

El Miércoles 28 de Mayo de 2014 17:15, Stefan Dietze <dietze at l3s.de> escribió:

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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