Publishing a Vocabulary

Create or manage a vocabulary

The RVA Editor allows you to manage your vocabulary with your collaborators, with optional workflow management. Vocabularies can be uploaded or created from scratch within the editor. Additional features of the RVA Editor include:

• capturing information about your vocabulary and the concepts it contains
• browsing through the concepts in your vocabulary via the built-in visualisation tool
• linking concepts in your vocabulary to concepts in other vocabularies.

Access to the RVA Editor is restricted to ARDC partner organisations (Australian research organisations, including universities, research institutes, collecting organisations and government agencies). Partners can use the RVA Editor to create new machine-readable vocabularies.

Register for RVA

Publish and describe a vocabulary

The Research Vocabularies Australia portal allows you to upload and describe your vocabulary. Vocabulary files may be uploaded in a variety of formats (including X, Y and Z). Additional publishing features in Research Vocabulary Australia include the ability to:

• upload vocabulary files in a variety of formats
• describe versions of your vocabulary, their statuses, and changes made between versions
• provide contact, access and licencing information about your vocabulary
• describe your vocabulary by subject and language
• describe individuals who have contributed to the vocabulary's creation or management
• use the integrated workflow to publish vocabularies managed in the RVA Editor.

Read the user guides for publishing

Store a vocabulary

Research Vocabularies Australia includes a repository for vocabulary files and their information. The Research Vocabulary Australia repository enables the flow of information between the editor and the portal.

Storing a vocabulary in Research Vocabularies Australia makes it accessible through the LinkedData API, SPARQL endpoint and Registry API.

Learn more about the repository