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Mapping LGBTQ+-related thesauri

Semantic interoperability

LGBTQ+ Case Study Infobox

  • Author: Clair Kronk (@Superraptor)
  • Last updated: 2025-04-27
  • Mapping Type: Mapping Type
  • Status of this case study: Status

Mapping LGBTQ+-related thesauri into an accompanying ontology.

Domain

LGBTQ+ studies

Purpose of the mapping

Semantic interoperability

Other purpose of the mapping

This mapping will produce a new ontology, but it should be usable both as an ontology and as a thesaurus

Type of mapped resources

Most resources included are ontologies (FMA, MONDO, DO, GSSO), classification schemes (ICD, DSM), thesauri (Homosaurus) , or subject heading schemes (LCSH, MeSH). However, this resource is built in Wikibase (https://lgbtdb.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page) and therefore also includes thousands of resources that are cited for each relationship. More information can be found here.

We are currently using hundreds of mapping documents, including:

  • LCSH/MeSH Mapping Project (https://github.com/galterlibrary/mapping-project)
  • LCSH mappings to ISNI, VIAF, Wikidata, etc.
  • Homosaurus mappings to LCSH and to previous and future versions of the Homosaurus
  • Wikidata mappings occasionally
  • ICD-10/11 mappings (from WHO)
  • ICD-9-CM/ICD-10-CM mappings (from U.S. government)
  • DC Mappings to Schema.org
  • SNOMED International Mapping Tool (for mappings from SNOMED to ICD-10)
  • Research Metadata Schema Crosswalk Mappings to Schema.org
  • Dublin Core to PROV Mapping
  • DC type mapping to CIDOC/CRM
  • DCAT-AP to Schema.org Mapping
  • SUMO-OWL to YAGO (https://github.com/ontologyportal/sumo/)
  • SUMO-OWL to DBpedia (https://github.com/ontologyportal/sumo/)
  • DBpedia to Wikidata
  • A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases
  • DataCite to DCAT-AP Mapping
  • Mapping the Provenance Ontology to Basic Formal Ontology (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03866)

Among a number of others.

Tools used for creating the mapping

Manual mapping.

Type of mapping relations

Entity mappings, usually one-to-one but occasionally one-to-many.

Examples (samples) of different types of mapping implementations

Mapping is performed manually based on pre-existing published mappings. If some mappings do not function (i.e. they are not logically or semantically interoperable) they are still added and cited, but deprecated.