Thesaurus Selection Aid

[coret]

To help heritage organisation select the right terminology source(s) to use, a new "selection aid" function in the NoT demonstrator would be needed.

Prototype by @rschalkrce:

For this function to work the terminology source descriptions (such as https://github.com/netwerk-digitaal-erfgoed/network-of-terms/blob/master/packages/network-of-terms-catalog/catalog/datasets/cht.jsonld) should be expanded with a schema:genre property with one or more values from a controlled-by-us (or standard) vocabulary (in Dutch and English).

The GraphQL API should be expanded in order for the demonstrator to query terminology source (datasets) on one or more selected 'genres'.

Additionally, it would be nice to give more information about a terminology source via this selection aid or an overview of terminology sources page, like schema:mainEntityOfPage and schema:description. In the future, information from the Dataset KG about terminology source usage could be included (or used for sorting).

[ddeboer]

Discussed today and decided:

• [x] to store the genres in the dataset descriptions
• [ ] to add a separate page to the demonstrator with the genres and for each, a list of terminology sources for that genre
• [ ] on that page, for each genre, add a link to take those terminology sources to the current search interface.
• [ ] document on https://termennetwerk.netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/faq3 so suppliers can add a selection tool to their products (if desirable).

[rschalkrce]

Would it be an option to consider schema.org Types for the genres? Upside: follows NDE recommendations. Downside: difficult to add new types.

We could use sdo:

• Event
• Person (also MusicGroup)
• Place
• Organization
• Thing (perhaps too generic)
• Material
• CreativeWork (for types of publication, e.g. Brinkman)
• Occupation
• Action (for activities)

We miss sdo types for genres:

• Techniques
• Physical attributes/ characteristics (perhaps sdo:PropertyValue could do)
• Periods in time (but could consider sdo:Time)
• Genre (for Iconclass)

[rschalkrce]

@ddeboer and @EnnoMeijers can you give your ideas about using schema.org for the genres in the NoT dataset description?

[EnnoMeijers]

Using schema.org as a generic ontology for classes and properties is a NDE recommendation. Using schema.org as a controlled vocabulary for NoT-genres only makes sense when there is a clear match for all genres. I don't have any objections to using a NoT/domain specific LOD-list to offer a complete and fined-grained list of genres.

[rschalkrce]

Thanks for your reply @EnnoMeijers . I did not find a vocab suitable for our use yet. Perhaps we should make our own genre list using PoolParty? Benefit is that we can expand it when needed. I can maintain the list.

[rschalkrce]

@ddeboer I've started with a genre list that we can use to categorize the datasets: https://data.cultureelerfgoed.nl/termennetwerk/onderwerpen.html

Let me know if this works for you. If you can adapt the json-ld datasets descriptions, I can add the genres per dataset.

[rschalkrce]

Hi @ddeboer do you have enough to work with to implement a genre category in the dataset descriptions? I can fill in the specific genres per dataset if you can set up the fields in the json-ld files.

[ddeboer]

@rschalkrce You can now add the genres to https://github.com/netwerk-digitaal-erfgoed/network-of-terms/pull/1333.

[ddeboer]

As a first step, the genres are now shown at https://termennetwerk.netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/reconciliation.

@rschalkrce Just wondering: should ‘Actoren en organismen’ perhaps be ‘Actoren en organisaties’?