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Vocabularies

Service Offering

KurrawongAI has extensive experience in creating controlled vocabularies for organisations to use as master data - referenced by other data products and systems.

We usually use Knowledge Graph methods and the SKOS vocabulary data model but are also familiar with many other models and systems.

Many of our vocabulary system establishment projects see us creating vocabularies for clients and then training them to create their own and to govern them (see Data Governance).

Case Study: Vocabulary system establishment for South Australia's Department for Energy and Mining

This is an example of a common government vocabulary establishment project.

We took Excel spreadsheets of 6 vocabularies of dataset classification terms created by the Department and converted them into Knowledge Graph (SKOS) vocabularies.

We also then created 5 other vocabularies ourselves: several based on external vocabularies, one or two from scratch.

We then created an extension of the VocPub vocabulary data model to publish these vocabularies with extended derivation and governance information.

Finally, we established a Prez instance, branded for the Department, that published their vocabularies in both human- and machine-readable form for use by their staff, industry and cataloguing systems.

The system is production online at https://vocabularies.sarig.sa.gov.au/vocab.

KurrawongAI is able to offer the following vocabulary services:

  • vocabulary training
    • how do I make a SKOS vocab?
    • what is SKOS and what can it do?
    • how do I reuse existing vocabularies, rather than reinventing the wheel?

See our Training information for more details.

  • vocabulary creation
    • we can make vocabularies from just about any source information, such as spreadsheets, databases, even emailed lists of things!
  • vocabulary management
    • as per our approach to Data Governance, we can assist you with policy and social infrastructure to manage your vocabularies
  • vocabulary system creation
    • we have been installing vocabulary system tooling for 5 years now and can customise a toolset for you

See our Prez System page for more details.

  • vocabulary analysis
    • we can analyse your vocabularies and implement best practice design
    • even if we don't know about your domain, we know about vocabulary data and use patterns

Please contact us to find out more about our Vocabulary services!