Alignment of conceptual structures in controlled vocabularies in the domain of Chinese art: a discussion of issues and patterns
Journal
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Journal Volume
17
Journal Issue
1
Date Issued
2016-03-01
Author(s)
Abstract
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. In any effort that involves multilingual KOS, the language and cultural variants bring a great degree of complexity, especially when perspectives of different cultures need to be integrated. This paper attempts to explore, within the domain of Chinese art, the interoperability of multilingual/multi-cultural vocabularies by analyzing the issues of aligning the conceptual structures of Chinese and English terminology in the controlled vocabularies observed in our Chinese AAT-Taiwan Project (2010-present). The paper addresses the issues related to the conceptual structures of the concepts for Chinese art in the National Palace Museum (NPM) Vocabulary and Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). The paper presents four patterns found in the effort of achieving semantic interoperability and shares a set of models that have been used to handle various situations. The findings help the understanding of the semantic interoperability of multilingual KOS, especially when dealing with cultural-related concepts that cannot be exactly aligned in vocabularies due to discrepancies in the conceptual structures.
Subjects
Controlled vocabularies | Knowledge organization | Multilingual terminology | Semantic mapping
SDGs
Publisher
SPRINGER
Type
journal article