Workshop “Let’s talk FAIR: (Re)using FAIR vocabularies and schemas in humanities and social sciences” at DHBenelux 2025
The collaboration between projects ODISSEI and CLARIAH is producing results, for example the organization of the workshop “Let’s talk FAIR: (Re)using FAIR vocabularies and schemas in humanities and social sciences” co-located at the conference DHBenelux 2025.
This workshop introduces the main concepts around FAIR vocabularies. “Vocabulary” is a broad concept that encompasses a wide range of knowledge representation types such as term lists, classification systems, thesauri, schemas, or ontologies (to name some of the most well-known). We will also discuss the main concepts around FAIR and FAIR assessments for vocabularies. Besides introducing the concepts, the workshop provides hands-on guidance on how to find existing vocabularies using the “SSH FAIR vocabulary registry”. It also includes practical guidelines and/or exercises for creating, publishing, (re)using vocabularies and/or assessing the FAIR-ness of vocabularies, depending on the participants interests.
URL: https://2025.dhbenelux.org/program-workshops/
Contact: Liliana Melgar (liliana.melgar@di.huc.knaw.nl)
Organizers: Windhouwer, Menzo; Meijer, Kerim; Melgar, Liliana; Maineri, Angelica; Valdestilhas, André
More good results from this collaboration between projects ODISSEI and CLARIAH is the paper entitled “Comparing FAIR Assessment Tools and Their Alignment with FAIR Implementation Profiles Using Digital Humanities Datasets”. Accepted at semDH workshop, colocated at ESWC 2025.
URL Zenodo dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.15261773
Contact: a.vadestilhas@vu.nl
Andre Valdestilhas will give a talk about the SSHOC-NL project and related activities at Leipzig Semantic Web Day (#LSWT2025) colocated at Data Week Leipzig 2025.
Title:Knowledge Graphs and FAIR principles applied to Social Sciences and Humanities on SSHOC-NL project
URL: https://www.dataweek.de/en/lswt2025/
The second edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Materials (SeMatS) colocated at ISWC 2025.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/semats2025
contact: a.valdestilhas@vu.nl
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