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Sharing Human Rights Terminologies: towards an online Thesauri Builder Boris Panhoelzl ECCHRD-meeting, 22 October 2010 ACCORD: Who we are COI Thesaurus: What we did How we did it How we would like to continue ACCORD Austrian


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Sharing Human Rights Terminologies: towards an online Thesauri Builder

Boris Panhoelzl ECCHRD-meeting, 22 October 2010

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  • ACCORD: Who we are
  • COI Thesaurus: What we did
  • How we did it
  • How we would like to continue
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ACCORD

Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation ACCORD contributes to fair and efficient asylum procedures by providing

  • independently and
  • neutrally researched information
  • n countries of origin of persons seeking

international protection to all parties involved in asylum procedures.

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ACCORD

ACCORD is funded by:

  • Austrian Ministry of the Interior
  • European Refugee Fund
  • Austrian Red Cross
  • Refugee-assisting NGOs in Austria
  • UNHCR

Additionally, ecoi.net is co-funded by

  • Informationsverbund Asyl & Migration, Germany
  • Refugee Documentation Centre, Ireland
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ACCORD's activities

Research

www.ecoi.net

Training

  • Query Responses
  • Country or thematic

reports based on literature, COI Workshops, Fact Finding Missions, etc.

  • 161 Countries
  • English, German
  • Updated daily
  • Full-Text Search
  • Alert Service

Research, Standards

  • ½-2 days workshops
  • Blended Learning (4

weeks e-training, 1 day face to face)

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  • ca. 128.000 documents
  • ca. 140 sources covered on a regular basis
  • Information on human rights, political & security situation
  • Focus on countries generating asylum seekers in

Europe

  • Bi-lingual thesaurus supports search
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German term Synonyms, near- synonyms, translation automatically included as search terms

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COI Thesaurus: designed...

  • for the field of Country of Origin (of asylum

seekers) Information

  • to support full-text search by adding &

suggesting search terms – in 2 languages

  • with input from the Federal Office for

Migration and Refugees in Germany and the Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland, the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna and UNHCR & FMO's Refugee Thesaurus and HURIDOCS Micro-Thesauri

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COI Thesaurus: stats

  • development started in early 2007
  • 1st version online in February 2008
  • currently >3.200 concepts in 2 languages

(German, English)

  • in 9 classes or chapters
  • with a total of about 16.000 terms
  • currently adding coutry-specific

terms/concepts (like names of political parties)

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COI Thesaurus: Tools used

  • Conversion of HURIDOCS & Refugee Thesauri

to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System)

  • term frequency analysis of ecoi.net's corpus
  • Thesaurus creation:
  • lots of Excel-sheets
  • ThManager (University of Zaragoza):
  • pen source, Java-based, offline, single-user,

not updated since 2007.

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SKOS

Concept: domestic violence Preferred Label: domestic violence Alternative Label: family violence Alternative Label: spousal abuse Broader Term: gender-based violence Narrower Term: marital rape Related Term: child abuse Definition, Scope Notes, Hidden Labels

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COI Thesaurus: Tools used

Thesaurus updating:

  • collecting input (from our staff) in our Wiki
  • ThManager
  • direct changes in SKOS XML source
  • Excel-sheet transforming Excel to SKOS
  • validating at PoolParty's free SKOS

Consistency Checker

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Thesaurus Tools

...we didn't use:

  • Non-SKOS editors, like from Altova
  • Protégé plugin SKOSEd
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Thesaurus Tools

...we didn't use yet: PoolParty http://poolparty.punkt.at Add label:

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Thesaurus Tools

...we didn't use yet: PoolParty http://poolparty.punkt.at Add relation:

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Thesaurus Tools

...we didn't use yet: PoolParty http://poolparty.punkt.at Document processing - Tag recommender:

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Thesaurus Tool: Needs

  • Import of various formats (lower priority)
  • Export to various formats (high priority)
  • Web-based, multi-user-, multi-Thesaurus-capable
  • easy editing
  • „non-tech“ users can easily suggest terms,

translations & relations

  • approval mechanism
  • automatic recommendation of index-terms/tags?
  • Open source?
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Thesaurus Tool: Needs

Other needs? How do we get there? Thank you! info@ecoi.net

Boris Panhölzl