feat: proposal for a modular high-level vocabulary structure

[markdoerr]

@dalito, @nmoust, @HendrikBorgelt and @AleSteB,

here is the corresponding pull request to Issue #33.

Open for discussions ...

[dalito]

Mark proposes multiple vocabularies (SKOS:ConceptScheme) here. This is in contrast to the one vocabulary idea pursued so far. This PR would fail because voc4cat is configured to have only one vocabulary in the repository here and checked in CI.

The voc4cat-compatible way is to use collections for grouping terms by sub-discipline.

[markdoerr]

just to the background for my proposal:
One single vocabulary with > 3000 concepts is very hard to handle and oversee (also spreadsheet software slows down and makes it hard to edit lines). Smaller modules might make handling much more maintainable - and could be better understood by the domain experts (a Photo-catalyst Expert might not want to care about homogeneous or biocatalysis).

Good modularisation is hopefully the solution to this problem.

[dalito]

Closing because voc4cat is a single vocabulary repo.

Smaller modules might make handling much more maintainable - and could be better understood by the domain experts (a Photo-catalyst Expert might not want to care about homogeneous or biocatalysis).

@markdoerr - One interesting (under-advertised?) feature of the Excel-submission pipeline is that you could submit a cut-down Excel file. This will not delete any of concepts already present in voc4cat. So if someone wants to contribute, e.g. to photo catalysis, they could filter out and delete anything out of interest first. Then they can work on the smaller file and submit this small file in the standard way.