CULCO: Concept Scheme for contentious terminology
type: Ontology
subclass of: ConceptScheme
label: Contentious Issues Scheme
abstract: The CULCO concept scheme is used to represent contentious terminology. CULCO stands for "cultural contexts". This scheme is used in the Words Matter knowledge graph, which contains Dutch and English contentious terms often found in museum databases. With CULCO, the knowlege graph models relationships between contentious terms, explanations, suggestions on their usage, and alternative terms given by experts from the cultural sector.
created: 2022-12-13
creator: Andrei Nesterov
creator: Laura Hollink
creator: Jacco van Ossenbruggen
contributor: Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7456064
status: CULCO Scheme Specification
namespace prefix: culco
namespace URI: https://w3id.org/culco#
replaces: schema.ttl
version IRI: schema.ttl
version info: 1.0.2

Andrei Nesterov
type: Person
affiliation: CWI

Laura Hollink
type: Person
affiliation: CWI

Jacco van Ossenbruggen
type: Person
affiliation: VU University Amsterdam

Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
type: Organisation

Contentious Issue
type: Class
comment: Represents a discussion about a term. In a broader sense, the discussion may have various formats and types (a textual publication, a social media post, a multimedia file, a verbal conversation etc.). A term can be a word or a phrase that causes a discussion. In the case of Words Matter, the discussion is the glossary entry, which takes one page and includes a title (a contentious term), explanations about the term's usage, and suggestions

Suggestion
type: Class
comment: A suggestion gives recommendations on how to use a contentious term. It can have concrete alternatives: words and phrases to be used instead of a contentious term in specific contexts. A suggestion can refer to multiple contentious terms. Usually, a Suggestion is a part of a Contentious Issue

hasSuggestion
type: Property
domain: Contentious Issue
range: Suggestion
comment: Used to link Contentious Issue to a Suggestion. Contentious Issue may have several Suggestions

hasContentiousLabel
type: Property
domain: Contentious Issue
range: Label
comment: Used to link Contentious Issue to the contentious label(s) it mentions. Suggestion may also mention contentious labels

hasSuggestedLabel
type: Property
domain: Suggestion
range: Label
comment: Used to link Suggestion to the suggested label(s) it mentions.

suggestedFor
type: Property
domain: Suggestion
range: Label
comment: Used to link Suggestion to the contentious label(s) it is suggested for.

hasAltLabelExample
type: Property
domain: Suggestion
range: Label
comment: Used with Suggestions when a suggestion gives an example of a contextually appropriate synonym, but not a complete alternative to a contentious label. For example, the term 'Moroccan-Dutch' is one of the possible alternatives for the contentious term 'Allochtoon'

hasUsageExample
type: Property
domain: Suggestion
range: string
comment: Used with Suggestions when it gives an example of how a contentious term or its synonym can be used appropriately in speech; usually, it is a phrase providing additional context in which it is appropriate to use the mentioned terms, for example, the phrase 'There was an artistic movement called ‘primitivism’ for the term 'Primitive'