Using own vocabulary with labels

[mbuechner]

Description

Using a controlled vocabulary for labels is essential for our portal. For the maintenance of vocabulary/labels, we’re using a dedicated management tool. Any changes made in the vocabulary will automatically update the labels in use. We think this would also be of use to other stakeholders.

Implementing IIIF would mean that all metadata has to be re-processed if labels are changed. (Another solution is creating the IIIF manifest on-the-fly. However, we do not prefer this solution at the moment.)

Variation(s)

A similar case are the values of labels.

Proposed Solutions

{
  "metadata": [{
      "label": {
        "@id": "http://ddb.vocnet.org/label/lab00037",
        "en": ["Notes"],
        "de": ["Anmerkungen"]
      },
      "value": {
        "@none": ["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"]
      }
    }]
}

Additional Background

The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek is Germany's central national portal for culture and science. We sold our souls to Linked Open Data.