Wikidata:Property proposal/Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften
Thesaurus for the Social Sciences edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier for a concept in the Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften (Thesaurus for the Social Sciences) |
|---|---|
| Represents | Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (Q15850664) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | social science (Q34749) |
| Allowed values | positive integers |
| Example 1 | Canada (Q16) → 10048494 |
| Example 2 | administration of justice (Q16514399) → 10056135 |
| Example 3 | abortion (Q8452) → 10034508 |
| Example 4 | Max Adler (Q93397) → 10034570 |
| Example 5 | Algerians (Q12480578) → 10035036 |
| Example 6 | Amnesty International (Q42970) → 10035418 |
| Example 7 | alternative medicine (Q188504) → 10051949 |
| Source | https://www.gesis.org/en/services/research/tools/thesaurus-for-the-social-sciences |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Planned use | Link Wikidata items to the thesaurus, particularly for geographic places |
| Number of IDs in source | about 12,000 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | http://lod.gesis.org/thesoz/concept_$1 |
Motivation edit
The Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften (Thesaurus for the Social Sciences), also called TheSoz, is a central instrument for content-oriented searches in the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Currently, the thesaurus contains about 12,000 entries with around 8,000 descriptors and around 4,000 synonyms. TheSoz covers all disciplines of the social sciences. Terms and URIs from this source have been added to Library of Congress name authority records, but there is currently no way to include identifiers from this thesaurus in Wikidata items. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk • contribs) at 01:37, 12 June 2020 (UTC).
Discussion edit
Support Looks like a good addition. Jean-Fred (talk) 12:42, 14 June 2020 (UTC)- Support Looks interesting, however I notice that many of these entries are quite empty (eg http://lod.gesis.org/thesoz/de/concepts/concept_10035418.html and http://lod.gesis.org/thesoz/fr/concepts/concept_10048494.html) and dont seem to contain a lot of useful information. Can you comment on this, how is this actually used and how useful is it? --Hannes Röst (talk) 15:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
The vocabulary is used to index the articles and papers in the Social Science Opean Access Repository, which collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access. Full texts are deposited, and thus published, either by scientists themselves or by social science research institutions, university faculties, and discipline-specific infrastructure providers via bulk imports or individual imports in collaboration with the repository. According to the SSOAR website, full texts are indexed using controlled social science vocabulary (Thesaurus, Classification) and are assigned rich metadata. Hence, in addition to thematic searches in SSOAR, full texts are found very well using Google and other search engines and are ranked higher in the search engine's results. Each electronic document is assigned a URN (Uniform Resource Name), which is a persistent identifier (PID) that enables unequivocal and permanent access to the publication and its scientific citation. All metadata are made available under a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) licence and can be harvested via the standardised OAI-PMH web interface and used freely without any restrictions. As of today, the repository contains 57270 full texts. If you click on the "Concept Mappings" ("Beziehungen zu anderen Ontologien" in German) tab of a term, you'll see that terms are mapped to outher sources such as dbpedia and the STW Thesaurus for Economics. --Adam Schiff (talk) 09:05, 19 June 2020 (UTC)