Knowledge Organisation Systems in the Humanities—Semantic Interoperability in Practice

• Published in: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 1113 - 1115
• Main Authors: Scharnhorst, Andrea, Flohr, Pascal, Tykhonov, Vyacheslav, De Vries, Jerry, Hollander, Hella, Touber, Jetze, Hugo, Wim, Smiraglia, Richard, Le Franc, Yann, Siebes, Ronald, Meijers, Enno
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01-10-2023
• Subjects: data archiving; Humanities; interoperability; Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS); ontologies
• ISSN: 2373-9231; 2373-9231
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.962

ABSTRACT
We observe a growing universe of machine‐readable knowledge organisation systems (KOS) or even wider ‘semantic artifacts. We see at the same time, various attempts to bring semantic artifacts together via registries, catalogues and via cross‐walks among ontologies. This poster reflects how newest research on semantic interoperability informs current practice for research data repositories and registry service providers. We focus on the domain of humanities and cultural heritage, using different examples from Europe and the Netherlands: The European Archaeological Data Infrastructure Ariadne, services of the Dutch Cultural Heritage Network and two Data Stations (for Archaeology and for SSH) hosted at DANS‐KNAW. For those cases we report on current efforts to include ‘semantic artifacts’, together with opportunities and challenges. This poster is a practice report combined with an invitation to reflect about the context of semantic interoperability itself.