Profiling of knowledge organisation systems for the annotation of Linked Data cultural resources

The importance of cultural heritage for supporting the knowledge economy has promoted its digitisation and online publication. Many cultural heritage repositories have published millions of digitised items using semantic web technologies and Linked Data approaches. These repositories frequently use...

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Published in:Information systems (Oxford) 2019-09, Vol.84, p.17-28
Main Authors: Díaz-Corona, Dayany, Lacasta, Javier, Latre, Miguel Ángel, Zarazaga-Soria, F. Javier, Nogueras-Iso, Javier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annotations
Cultural heritage
Cultural resources
Data profiling
Digitization
Information systems
Knowledge organisation systems
Knowledge organization
Linked Data
Quality analysis
Repositories
Semantic web
SKOS
Thesauri
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Summary:The importance of cultural heritage for supporting the knowledge economy has promoted its digitisation and online publication. Many cultural heritage repositories have published millions of digitised items using semantic web technologies and Linked Data approaches. These repositories frequently use knowledge organisation systems to classify the resources, but the domain heterogeneity makes it difficult to know if they are the most suitable ones. This paper describes the process used to discover and profile the knowledge organisation systems used in the cultural heritage domain. Additionally, for those knowledge organisation systems with a thesaurus-like structure, a detailed quality analysis is performed. The results of this analysis can be used as a key factor for the selection of knowledge organisation systems in classification tasks. •Discovery and study of KOS in cultural heritage LD collections is difficult.•The use of cultural KOS is concentrated: 17% of the KOS aggregate 80% of the uses.•KOS definitions are important for reusability but not usually provided.•KOS consistency quality is less relevant than completeness and accuracy.
ISSN:0306-4379
1873-6076
DOI:10.1016/j.is.2019.04.008