Dr Megan Wong1, Mr Kheeran Dharmawardena2, Dr Simon Cox3, Assoc. Prof. Steven McEachern4, Dr Lesley Wyborn5, Dr Rowan Brownlee5
1Federation University – CeRDI, Ballarat, Australia, 2Cytrax Consulting, Melbourne, Australia, 3CSIRO Land and Water, Clayton, Australa, 4Australian National University, Australian Data Archive, Canberra, Australia, 5Australian Research Data Commons , Caulfield East, Australia
Controlled vocabularies, ontologies and classifications form an important foundation of the management and use of data in Australian research and in government agencies. In recent years, there has been the establishment of Australian national vocabulary services in the government and academic sectors and in proliferation in online vocabularies. This has led to an increased focus on the management of vocabularies and the need to help users identify which vocabulary best meets their needs, particularly if the discipline is unfamiliar to them.
A FAIR Vocabularies Workshop was held in 2021, that focussed on the governance and technical services necessary to publish FAIR vocabularies. During 2022, a cross-domain community has continued to build on this foundation to encourage groups to share current practices, and to set an agenda to support current and future needs for vocabularies in the Australian and international context.
This BOF will seek ideas from participants on how we can continue to move from the current state of Australian vocabularies toward a future state that meets next generation vocabulary requirements, in particular, FAIR and well governed.
The BoF will be oriented around three questions:
- What is our vocabulary landscape in 2022?
- What would constitute the optimum future state?
- What do we need to do to be able to harmonise and converge our thinking?
The workshop will conclude with a report back on these issues, and an overview of the forthcoming Australian Vocabularies Symposium in November 2022, which will explore these issues further.
Biography:
This session is jointly convened by a cross-domain, interdisciplinary team with a common interest in improving the current state of Australian vocabularies toward a future state that meets next generation vocabulary requirements.
Dr Megan Wong: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2991-2308
Kheeran Dharmawardena: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4292-7475
Dr Simon Cox https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-3420
Prof. Steven McEachern:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-4912
Dr Lesley Wyborn: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4943