About

Following on from the success of the 2022 Vocabulary Symposium, the ARDC invites you to the 2023 Vocabulary Symposium on November 14 and 15, 2023.  This is a two day hybrid event bringing together people from domains across disciplines spanning research, government and industry, including those from the ARDC  Thematic Research Data Commons. The aim is to communicate and promote approaches to using, developing, publishing, and maintaining vocabularies. The Symposium will cover Australian and international initiatives that demonstrate the impact and value of FAIR vocabularies for maximising the re-use value of data within and across domains. 

Partners 

The Symposium is led by the ARDC, in partnership with ADA, AHRA, AIHW, APPF, AURIN, AuScope, AusTraits, CODATA, IMOS, LDaCA, and TERN.

View the Program 

The program features keynote presentations from Arofan Gregory (CODATA) and Jen Drysdale (National Film and Sound Archive of Australia).  Arofan works as a standards expert and will present on controlled vocabularies in a changing metadata landscape.  Jen is a cultural heritage informatics and analytics specialist and will discuss the role of vocabularies in cultural heritage and the impact of new strategic drivers.

Who should attend? 

Anyone with an interest in vocabularies is welcome to participate. This includes:

• informatics people

• researchers

• data managers

• infrastructure providers

• vocabulary publishers

• librarians

• policy developers across research, government and industry.

The event will be of interest to local and international participants.

Date and location

Online and in-person, on November 14 and 15, 2023 AEST. The in-person event will be held at

• ANU Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)

• 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton, ACT 2601  

Will the presentations be recorded?

With presenters' consent, ARDC will publish a video-recording of each accepted presentation on the ARDC YouTube channel.

We will also publish a copy of the abstract and presentation slides in the ARDC Zenodo Community, under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Material submitted to Zenodo will receive a persistent identifier in the form of a DOI.

Registration 

The Symposium is free to attend, either in-person or online.  Attendees must register.  Registrations are open.  Registrations for in-person participation will close on Sunday, November 5 at 5pm, Canberra time. 

By registering for the Symposium, you agree to abide by the ARDC Code of Conduct.

Learn more

The ARDC supports the Australian Vocabulary Special Interest Group (AVSIG), formed in 2016 to provide a forum for discussion and activity on the use and creation of controlled vocabularies in research, data, information and collection management. Learn more and join the AVSIG. 

Questions?

Email contact@ardc.edu.au

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