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2022 Vocabulary Symposium and Workshop

Report to AVSIG Meeting. December 6, 2022.

Lesley Wyborn, Megan Wong*, Steve McEachern, Kheeran Dharmawardena, Simon Cox, Rowan Brownlee*

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional lands we meet, and pay our respect to the elders past, present and emerging.

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Overview

Organisational partners

Collaboration underpinning these events. CODATA, ARDC & ADA

Symposium

What was it about?
Who attended & where did they come from?
Presentations & keynotes
Q & A, vocab list, links to outputs

Workshop

The focus of each day’s activities informing the foci of a roadmap
Planning the roadmap, staring it, taking it forward (next steps proposed by Workshop participants)

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Organisational partners

Australian Data Archive (ADA)
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Science Council)

Organising Committee, Members from:

Australian Data Archive, Australian National University;
Australian Research Data Commons;
CSIRO Environmental Informatics;
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and Cytrax;
Federation University Centre of eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI)
Support team ANU and ARDC - thank you!

These events were developed in collaboration between the Australian Data Archive, the Australian Research Data Commons and CODATA.

ADA is an archive of national social sciences datasets.
ARDC partners on research infrastructure projects, developing platforms and providing services.
CODATA promotes global collaboration to advance open science and to improve the availability and usability of data for research.

Each of these partners has an interest in supporting and promoting the availability of well governed, authoritative vocabularies.

For ARDC, CODATA & ADA, it was a natural fit, to work in partnership to develop a Symposium and Workshop focusing upon the application of FAIR vocabularies within and across domains and sectors.

The local organising committee comprised members from ADA, ARDC, Federation University, CSIRO, Cytrax & the Department of Climage Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Along with additional assistance from ANU & ARDC.

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Vocabulary Symposium

Open access
Onsite at ANU & online
2 Days of presentations & discussion
AU & international
What’s happening within & across domains?
What may we learn, reuse, apply and develop?

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Who attended?

59 onsite registrations
181 online registrations

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Who attended?

Universities & other research organisations
Cultural heritage organisations
NCRIS facilities
State & Federal Government

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Who attended?

Science, health & medicine, indigenous, social sciences, earth & environmental, humanities, arts
New Zealand, Japan, Iraq, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ireland, Slovenia, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, India, Canada, USA

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Presentations

2 keynote presentations

1 was online. 1 was onsite

17 session presentations

11 were online. 6 were onsite

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What did the presentations cover?

International Vocabularies and services
Vocabularies in Australia
Finding, managing and reusing vocabularies
Systems and tools for publication and access
Applying vocabularies within and across domains
Interoperability frameworks
Co-creation of inclusive vocabularies
Vocabularies in support of privacy, security, consent
Vocabulary governance

We had three broad groupings. Three areas into which the presentations were grouped

International Vocabularies and services
Current practices concerning vocabularies in Australia
Systems and tools for discovering and reusing vocabularies

Within those groupings we had great presentations. These included

Vocabularies that are used across domains
Interoperability frameworks enabling the application of vocabularies across domains
An approach to managing vocabularies using tools originating from software development
Challenges involved in managing vocabularies that are used by different groups - bringing those groups together
The importance of inclusion in vocabulary development. If you’re developing a vocabulary for particular user groups, very important to truly engage with those groups.

A great set of contributors and we encourage you to scan through the program.

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Keynotes

CODATA - Simon Hodson

International Scientific Unions & Terminologies
Governance & sustainability
GOSC, WorldFAIR, FIPS, FERS & interoperability frameworks

ARDC - Adrian Burton

Knowledge infrastructure for impactful research
Catalogs, identifiers & vocabularies
Data connections across organisations & sectors, spanning inputs, activities & outputs

There were two keynote speakers. Simon Hodson from CODATA and Adrian Burton from ARDC

Both covered a great deal within their respective presentations.

Simon discussed CODATA’s longstanding involvement supporting and promoting good governance & sustainability in vocabulary development.

And he gave an overview of a range of current initiatives concerning interoperability across domains. In particular the Global Open Science Cloud and WorldFair. Fair Implementation Profiles and Fair Enabling Resources

Adrian discussed ARDC strategies and services for developing knowledge infrastructure for impactful research.

ARDC provide, support and promote a range of services around catalogs, persistent identifiers and vocabularies

Aimed at making, discovering and reusing data connections across organisations & sectors, spanning inputs, activities & outputs

Two keynotes, both worth reviewing.

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