Metadatamanagement: As a data provider I would like to have a controlled vocabulary as "search as you type suggestions" while entering tags

[AndyDaniel1]

We need to evaluate ways to include a controlled vocabulary (a thesaurus) in the mdm to standardize tags.

Idea: Propose tags from a thesaurus as "search as you type suggestions"

[UteH]

e. g. https://elsst.ukdataservice.ac.uk/
https://elsst.ukdataservice.ac.uk/thesaurus-search/view-concept/?id=f4395aa9-0ea8-4f6a-bd93-c83f79864f91&lang=EN#/tab-current-version

investigation:

• https://github.com/dzhw/ssy17/issues/39
• https://github.com/dzhw/ssy18/issues/38#issuecomment-496211551

[rreitmann]

We need to analyze what we can import from ukdataservice. Source of tags shall be harmonized for data packages and concepts.

[rreitmann]

We need to get in contact with ukdataservice in order to use elsst within our application:
https://elsst.ukdataservice.ac.uk/elsst-guide/obtaining-elsst.aspx

[rreitmann]

I got the following reply when asking for a license and technical details:

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the ELSST thesaurus. We are very glad to hear of your interest in the product. As we are in the process of moving its ownership from the University of Essex to the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), we are no longer able to issue a licence. We shall let you know, however, as soon as the new licence arrangements are in place. The CESSDA licence will be a Creative Commons licence.

[AndyDaniel1]

@anneweber mentioned the Neps "Konzeptbaum" as good example you can see it here: https://www.neps-data.de/Datenzentrum/%C3%9Cbersichten-und-Hilfen/NEPSplorer

[rreitmann]

We will continue discussing this issue as soon as CESSDA gets in touch with us...

[AndyDaniel1]

@AndyDaniel1 will contact Gesis (Germany CESSDA Partner)

[rreitmann]

We are pleased to announce that the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is now freely accessible and available on the CESSDA Platform at https://elsst.cessda.eu/ as one of a suite of web-based tools. It is now covered by a CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence.
We hope you will find it useful for your purposes.

[UteH]

whooooop whoooooooooooop 🎉

[UteH]

Whats the situation here again 🙈 ?

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https://thesauri.cessda.eu/swagger-ui/index.html 👀

[rreitmann]

We need to check the APIs for tags...

[rreitmann]

The following endpoint allows searching for concepts (with paging and wildcards):
https://thesauri.cessda.eu/swagger-ui/index.html#/Vocabulary-specific%20methods/get__vocid__search

vocid=elsst
lang=de or lang=en
query=aber*

The API is completely public thus we could easily integrate it.

@AndyDaniel1 Please check if the thesaurus (https://thesauri.cessda.eu/elsst/en/) is a good (exclusive) source for our tags in German and English from your point of view.

[rreitmann]

There are some other open topics we need to discuss:

1. Is CC BY-SA 4.0 compatible with our License (AGPL 3)
2. Which labels do we want to use as our tags (only prefLabel or altLabel as well)?