I’ll be giving a talk at the Semantic Technology Conference, June 23 from 7:30AM – 8:20am (ouch!), in San Francisco, CA. The talk title is “Using a Controlled Vocabulary for Managing a Digital Library Platform“: no talk page yet, but the abstract follows. If you’re there, come by and say hello!
(Astute readers will note some similarities between this and my upcoming BibleTech talk. But the audiences are quite different, so the content will be too. This talk will provide “a practical case study on semantically organizing reference material to support search and navigation, using a controlled vocabulary.”)
Abstract
Encyclopedias and other subject-oriented reference books frequently present the same content using different names: and users often look for this information using other names altogether.
The Logos Controlled Vocabulary (LCV) organizes parallel but distinct content in the domain of Biblical studies to integrate reference information and support search, discovery, and knowledge management. The LCV captures
- preferred and alternate terminology
- inter-term relationships
- term hierarchy
- linkage to other semantic information
The initial version of the LCV (now shipping in the Logos digital library platform) comprises some 11,000 terms, and continues to grow as more reference works are added. It also provides the backbone of http://topics.logos.com, a website for user contributions to terminology and content.
This talk will describe the building of the LCV, how we’re using it now, and how we plan to use and extend it in the future.
Keywords: controlled vocabulary, publishing, reference, terminology, SKOS