Extend metadata keywords with Voc4Cat vocabularies

[vkush]

Try to use "flexible metadata" to integrate Voc4Cat vocabularies into "citation" metadata. Use SKOS, DCAT.

See here: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/metadatacustomization.html#using-external-vocabulary-services

[dalito]

Dataverse 6.3 brings improved "External Vocabulary Services" functionality. In the examples, connecting to SKOSMOS (a web based SKOS browser and publishing tool) is demonstrated.

So, after the planned update to 6.3 (#9, #26) and if TS4NFDI sets up SKOSMOS as announced, we should be able to integrate voc4cat via the skosmos-API as in the examples in https://github.com/gdcc/dataverse-external-vocab-support/

[vkush]

We have to contact TS4NFDI about some incubator project for SKOSMOS service - https://base4nfdi.de/projects/ts4nfdi (contact point - RB).

[dalito]

I contacted them (@rombaum) in NFDI chat last week and they are interested (for Q1-2025).

[dalito]

Roman informed me today that their widgets can already use Skosmos-APIs for autocomplete [1] or to retrieve hierarchies [2]. So we could already explore now, if using the TS4NFDI widgets is a viable option to integrate SKOS-vocabularies in dataverse or if the route linked in the first message is the way to go.

[1] https://ts4nfdi.github.io/terminology-service-suite/comp/latest/?path=/story/react_autocompletewidget--use-api-gateway-with-skosmos
[2] https://ts4nfdi.github.io/terminology-service-suite/comp/latest/?path=/story/react_hierarchywidget--skos-hierarchy

[vkush]

FYI. Repository "bonndata" is using own SCOS server for external metadata - for field "subject". Connection to ORCID for author was little bit customized compare to basic Dataverse scripts.
Bonndata wants to use also TIB Terminology Service (via their TIB-TS-API) to have plus-minus stable vocabularies based also on DFG rules (e.g. "subject" basing on DFG subject area structure, see also ontology).

Updates of vocabularies and updates of Dataverse do not bring problems, so using is good. Versions of ontology look like also referenced.