Thesauri
Een thesaurus is een gestructureerd en gecontroleerd vocabularium waarbij elk begrip een label krijgt toegewezen. Op EU Vocabularies is een thesaurus de meertalige variant daarvan, waarbij dus een begrip in alle ondersteunde talen te herkennen is aan hetzelfde voorkeurslabel. Eventueel kunnen een of meer alternatieve labels aan een bepaalde taalversie van zo'n begrip worden gekoppeld.
Behalve door voorkeurs- en alternatieve labels, kunnen begrippen ook binnen een thesaurus semantisch gerelateerd zijn. Dit kan op drie manieren: een bepaald begrip kan ruimer dan, enger dan of gerelateerd aan een ander begrip zijn.
Binnen een thesaurus kunnen een of meer microthesauri worden gedefinieerd.
Tot slot kunnen thesauri aan elkaar gekoppeld worden door bepaalde begrippen daaruit te aligneren. Tussen begrippen van afzonderlijke thesauri kunnen de volgende relaties bestaan:
- Has exact match (Identiek)
- Has close match (Bijna identiek)
- Has broad match (Ruimer)
- Has narrow match (Enger)
- Has related match (Gerelateerd)
Beschikbare thesauri:
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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