Thesauri
Un thesaurus è un vocabolario controllato e strutturato i cui concetti sono rappresentati da etichette (label). Nel contesto di EU Vocabularies, un thesaurus è un equivalente multilingue della definizione di base di cui sopra, nel quale lo stesso concetto in ciascuna delle lingue supportate è rappresentato da un'unica etichetta preferenziale. Potenzialmente, è possibile anche collegare una o più etichette alternative a ciascuna versione linguistica di un concetto.
Parallelamente alle etichette preferite e alternative, ciascun concetto può essere semanticamente correlato all'interno del thesaurus in base a tre possibili corrispondenze: una determinata nozione può avere una relazione più ampia, più ristretta o associativa con altri concetti.
Nell'ambito di un unico thesaurus, è possibile definire una serie di micro-thesauri.
Infine, vari thesauri possono essere collegati tramite l'allineamento di concetti specifici ciascuno proveniente da uno di essi. Gli allineamenti che possono essere definiti tra concetti di thesauri diversi rientrano nel seguente ambito di corrispondenze:
- Has exact match (corrispondenza esatta)
- Has close match (stretta corrispondenza)
- Has broad match (ampia corrispondenza)
- Has narrow match (corrispondenza limitata)
- Has related match (corrispondenza associativa)
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This vocabulary was developed as part of the EU-funded project DE-BIAS - Detecting and cur(at)ing harmful language in cultural heritage collections (2023/2024) and is used by the DE-BIAS tool for detecting bias in metadata. It consists of contentious terms in English, Dutch, German, French, and Italian accompanied by contextual descriptions, suggestions for reflection and alternative wording, and the reference to the sources. Focusing primarily on migration and colonial history, gender and sexual identity, and ethnicity and ethno-religious identity, it was developed with community input and extensive research. It serves as a living document to evolve with societal discourse. The model of this vocabulary is based on the Words Matter Knowledge Graph by Cultural AI. More information and the complete application profile can be found on the project website: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/the-de-bias-vocabulary.
Content note: Readers are advised that this document contains distressing words.
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EuroVoc users include the European Union institutions, the Publications Office of the EU, national and regional parliaments in Europe, plus national governments and private users around the world.
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