Vocabulary Symposium 2023 Recordings
Watch recordings of presentations at Vocabulary Symposium 2023, held on 14 and 15 November 2023.
Following on from the success of the 2022 Vocabulary Symposium, the 2023 Vocabulary Symposium was held on 14 and 15 November 2023 online and in person at the Australian National University to communicate and promote approaches to using, developing, publishing and maintaining vocabularies in different sectors and disciplines, including those targeted by the ARDC’s Thematic Research Data Commons.
Event Summary
Focusing on “FAIR Vocabularies For All”, the Symposium drew over 300 Australian and international registrants from different domains and sectors, including universities and other research organisations, cultural heritage institutions, NCRIS facilities, and state and federal governments. The Symposium featured over 30 presentations on local and global initiatives that demonstrate the impact and value of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) vocabularies for maximising the reuse value of data within and across domains. The presentations included:
- “Controlled Vocabularies in a Changing Metadata Landscape” by Arofan Gregory, CODATA
- “The Role of Vocabularies in Cultural Heritage and the Impact of New Strategic Drivers” by Jen Drysdale, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Day 1
Three groups of presentations were given on:
- health and biosecurity
- earth and environmental sciences
- humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous studies.
The day concluded with the group brainstorming session “FAIR Vocabularies for Cross-Domain Data Integration: What Is Key?”, facilitated by Dr Lesley Wyborn.
Day 2
Three groups of presentations were given on:
- APIs, concept mapping and automated indexing
- Tools, ethics, the knowledge-based economy and glossaries
- Roadmaps, community engagement, large language models, tools and vocabulary profiling.
The day concluded with the group brainstorming session “Moving FAIR Vocabularies Forward for All: What Are Our Priorities?”, facilitated by Professor Dougie Boyle.
Recordings
Recordings of presentations are now available:
Day 1
Day 2
Acknowledgement
The 2023 Vocabulary Symposium was led by the ARDC in partnership with:
- Australian Data Archive (ADA)
- Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA)
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
- Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF)
- AURIN
- AuScope
- AusTraits
- CODATA
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
- Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN).
More on Vocabularies
Learn more about vocabularies in our Guide to Vocabularies and Research Data.
The ARDC runs Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA), an easily accessible service for creating, managing, finding and accessing controlled vocabularies used in research. Find out more about the service and read a case study.
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24 November 2023
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