The Labeling System: A New Approach to Overcome the Vocabulary Bottleneck
The Labeling System: A New Approach to Overcome the Vocabulary Bottleneck
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标签系统:克服词汇瓶颈的新方法
DOI:
10.1145/2657480.2657482
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
H. Tarver
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作者:
H. Tarver
Shared controlled vocabularies are a prerequisite for collaborative annotation and semantic interchange. The creation and maintenance of such vocabularies is, however, time-consuming and expensive. The diversity of research questions in the humanities makes it virtually impossible to create shared controlled vocabularies that cover a wide range of potential applications and satisfy the needs of diverse stakeholders. In this paper we present a novel conceptual approach for mitigating these problems. We propose that projects define their own vocabularies as needed and link the vocabulary terms to one or more concepts in a reference thesaurus, so that the project-specific term effectively serves as a "label" for a set of shared concepts. We also describe the implementation of this approach in the Labeling System. The Labeling System is a Web application that allows users to easily import concepts or create SKOS vocabularies and link the vocabulary terms to concepts from one or more reference thesauri.