Katarzyna Materska
When designing tools for depositing, discovering, and reusing data and knowledge in a semantic network (e.g., repositories, platforms, scientific portals, aggregators), decisions must be made regarding the choice of metadata schema and dictionaries (often multilingual). The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), which are general guidelines, serve to enhance quality, usability, and semantic interoperability between systems, which means that their implementation is not always straightforward.
The aim of the presentation is to raise awareness of current trends in FAIR principles in relation to controlled vocabularies in the humanities and social sciences, in particular in open digital humanities resources, in order to maximize the functionality and impact of controlled vocabularies used by humans and machines.
The study compared the degree of application of FAIR principles in different systems. To this end, it used both scientific publications from the last few years and project documentation and specific implementations (e.g., the dictionaries of the multilingual Go Triple service, TaDiRAH – Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities, dictionaries of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories COAR, and Polish repositories: CeON Repository (from the end of April 2024, the Open Scientific Publications Repository OPEN), RepOD, and RDS.