BARTOC terminology registry
Terminology Infrastructure for EOSC: Enhanced Findability of Semantic Artefacts
2025-10-02
Background
- VZG public service center for libraries and cultural heritage institutions
- BARTOC catalogue of semantic artefacts, run by VZG
- NFDI buildung research data infrastructure in Germany
- TS4NFDI terminology services for NFDI
- terminology thesaurus, ontology, classification or similar semantic artefacts
BARTOC History
- 2012 funded by Andreas Ledl in Basel as “Thesaurusportal”
- 2013 extended to BARTOC, indexing with DDC and EuroVoc
- 2018/19 BARTOC Skosmos & BARTOC Fast (both on hold)
- 2020 Migration to VZG
- 2025-2028 Funding by DFG
BARTOC Now
- Information about more then 3800 terminologies
- Information about subjects, identifiers, publishers, APIs…
- More then 130 other terminology registries
- Review of terminology software
BARTOC Development
- New search engine (2025)
- Support more terminology APIs and formats (2025/26)
- Custom collections of terminologies
- Autoimport/sync & meta search (2026)
- Quality reports & hosting (2026/27)
- …
BARTOC Architecture
- Unification via JSKOS data format:
SKOS in JSON-LD with extensions
- Everything available as Open Data via APIs
- Used as backend in several services at VZG and NFDI (e.g. Cocoda mapping application)
Access to terminologies
- BARTOC knows about terminologies
- BARTOC knows about terminology APIs
(Skosmos, OntoPortal, SPARQL, JSKOS API…)
- BARTOC knows how to access terminology data
- Please reuse our knowledge!
Some obstacles
- Status and maturity of terminologies
- Versioning of terminologies: planned!
- Communities prefer to do their own:
integration with other terminology registries
Ideas & Suggestions
- Use data from BARTOC
- Become BARTOC editor and contribute
- List of EOSC vocabularies as subset of BARTOC and/or synced with BARTOC from EOSC terminology registry
- BARTOC helps findability and reusability of terminologies – but not their maintainance
