Dear Culture community,

here are some news from the Linked Open Data Working Group in NFDI4Culture that might be of interest to you:

1) We will have an open meeting on July 12th, from 10am to 12pm. This meeting will be focused on the Terminology Service that is in development right now. We would like to give you more information about our current plans, but the main focus will be on your needs and requirements for this service. See below for more details. IMPORTANT: Please let us know if you will attend by adding your name to this notepad: https://cloud.nfdi4culture.de/s/qECsKpPH5pwNt7y

2) We now have a mailing list! If you are interested in Linked Open Data in 4Culture and would like to receive more information like this, the mailing list is now ready for subscriptions! This will be the place where you will receive invitations to meetings, tutorials and events, as well as other important information regarding LOD in 4Culture. Many of these events will be relevant to anyone interested in LOD in 4Culture, even if you don't have any experience yet. Subscribe here: https://lists.nfdi.de/postorius/lists/nfdi4culture-lod.lists.nfdi.de/

Invitation to the Terminology Service Workshop:
Current terminology service tools in use within other NFDI consortia, such as the Ontology Lookup Service used by NFDI4Ing and NFDI4Chem for example, struggle to accommodate vocabularies and ontologies used in the arts and humanities disciplines due to their typically large size, difference in serialization formats and variety of hierarchical relations within complex category trees. In the context of TA1 and TA5, the Open Science Lab in TIB are prototyping a new service which aims to address the gaps in current service provisions. But to be sure we’re meeting the most pressing needs of the 4Culture community, we want to host a user research workshop which will explore this topic in more detail.
The workshop will feature hands-on exercises with existing terminology services in order to observe how culture community participants interact and make use of such services. Furthermore the workshop will aim to identify the most widely used vocabulary and ontology resources in the 4Culture community and discuss what common issues arise when researchers are browsing or looking up terms in these resources. Last but not least, the Open Science Lab team will present current service architecture plans and an initial prototype built around a set of speculative user stories. The goal of the workshop is to test the feasibility of these user stories against the real world scenarios our participants face in their daily research activities.