Open AccessMapping subjectivity: performing people-centered vocabulary alignment
Author(s) -
M. Cristina Pattuelli
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings from north american symposium on knowledge organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2311-4487
DOI - 10.7152/nasko.v3i1.12801
Subject(s) - computer science , vocabulary , context (archaeology) , semantics (computer science) , data science , reuse , representation (politics) , linked data , process (computing) , world wide web , semantic web , controlled vocabulary , external data representation , knowledge management , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , linguistics , engineering , philosophy , operating system , politics , law , political science , programming language , waste management , paleontology , biology
This paper describes a mapping of linked data vocabularies in the area of person-related information. Aligning vocabulary terms may help curb the problem of property proliferation that occurs in linked data environments. It also facilitates the process of choosing semantics for vocabulary extensions and integration in the context of linked data applications. Although a work in progress, this investigation would provide support for semantic integration and for knowledge sharing and reuse in the area of personal information representation. It also offers an opportunity to reflect on a new generation of knowledge organization systems such as linked data vocabularies that have started to populate the web and are converging with new representation models and discovery tools in libraries and other cultural heritage institutions.