Publications

The STW is used in applied research and development in computer and information science as well as in Linked Data/Semantic Web research. The resulting publications are listed below.

Publications by ZBW staff:

• A. Hajra, T. Pianos.  Bridging the Vocabulary Gap: Mapping Free-Text Queries to Controlled Thesaurus Descriptions Using Large Language Models, In: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2026), Faro.
• A. O. Kempf, A. Hajra, T. Potoczki. Exploring the Use of Large Language Models for Vocabulary Relationship Analysis and Standardization. Poster presented at the BiblioCon 2026, Berlin.
• A. O. Kempf. Applying Language Models for Knowledge Organization System Maintenance and Development: Approaching Roles and Competencies for Editorial Review Boards. IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards Symposium, 19.03.2025, Athens, Greece.
• M. Schöps, E. Wedekind,  T. Gebel, A.O. Kempf, P. Löwe, L. Kohlhepp, A. Gehrke, F. Puppe. The WBdigital Database: A Digital Repository for the Historical DIW-Wochenbericht, 1928-1968. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik - Journal of Economics and  Statistics - Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISSN 2366-049X, 2024, No. Ahead-of-Print, pp. 1-12, doi:10.1515/jbnst-2024-0055.
• A. O. Kempf. Thesauri. In: Kuhlen, R., Semar, W., Womser-Hacker, C., Lewandowski, D. (Eds.): Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft, 7. Auflage, Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2023, 183-194, doi:10.1515/9783110769043-016.
• L. Sammet, R. Krestel. Domain-Specific Keyword Extraction using BERT, in: S. Carvalho et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023), ISBN 978-989-54081-5-3, NOVA FCSH-CLUNL, Lisbon, 659-665, https://hdl.handle.net/11108/586
• T. Pianos, A. Hajra. Automatisch erzeugte Author Profiles als Grundlage für eine Themenseite zur Corona-Krise. In: ABI Technik - Berlin: De Gruyter, ISSN 0720-6763, Vol. 41 (2021), No. 1, 13-20, doi:10.1515/abitech-2021-0004.
• A. Hajra, T. Pianos, K. Tochtermann. Linking Author Information: EconBiz Author Profiles. In: Metadata and Semantic Research 14th International Conference, MTSR 2020, Madrid, Spain, December 2–4, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021, 180-191, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_18
• A. Kempf, J. Neubert. STW Thesaurus for Economics, in: B. Hjørland, C. Gnoli (eds.). Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization, 2021.
• A. Hajra. Content Enrichment of Digital Libraries: Methods, Technologies and Implementations. Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, 2020.
• A. Kasprzik, A. Kempf. On the automation of subject analysis and access. Foundations - requirements - steps towards implementation. Satellite meeting prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 21.08.2019, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• A. Hajra, K. Tochtermann. Visual Search in Digital Libraries and the Usage of External Terms. In: 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), Fisciano, Italy, 10-13 July 2018 New York: IEEE, 2018, 396-400, doi:10.1109/iV.2018.00074
• J. Neubert. Linking knowledge organization systems via wikidata. In: Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications,, 10-13.09.2018, Porto, Portugal, p.3.
• A. Kempf The Need to Interoperate: Structural Comparison of and Methodological Guidance on Mapping DisciplineSpecific Subject Authority Data to Wikidata. Proceedings of the 15th International ISKO Conference, 9-11.07.2018, Porto, Portugal.
• M. Toepfer, C. Seifert. Fusion architectures for automatic subject indexing under concept drift. In: International Journal on Digital Libraries - Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, ISSN 1432-1300,2018, No. Online First,, doi:10.1007/s00799-018-0240-3
• M. Toepfer, C. Seifert. Descriptor-Invariant Fusion Architectures for Automatic Subject Indexing. In: Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2017 Piscataway: IEEE, 2017, pp. 1-10, doi:10.1109/JCDL.2017.7991557
• M. Toepfer, C. Seifert. Towards Semantic Quality Control of Automatic Subject Indexing. In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 18-21, 2017, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham: Springer, 2017, pp. 616-619, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_56.
• M. Toepfer. Machine Learning Architectures for Scalable and Reliable Subject Indexing. Fusion, Knowledge Transfer, and Confidence. In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 18-21, 2017, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham: Springer, 2017, pp. 644-647, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_61.
• J. Neubert. Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings. NKOS Workshop at TPDL, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• A. O. Kempf, J. Neubert, M. Faden. "Über sieben Brücken musst Du gehn'..." - Erfahrungsbericht zu Aufbau und Pflege von Crosskonkordanzen des Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft zu anderen Vokabularen. Subject Indexing & Information Technology Workshop (SI&IT) - Workshop at the Head Office of the Common Library Network (VZG), 10.-11.05.2017.
• M. Toepfer, A. O. Kempf. 2016. Automatische Indexierung auf Basis von Titeln und Autoren-Keywords - ein Werkstattbericht. In: 027.7 Journal for Library Culture, 4(2), 84-97, 2016.
• T. Rebholz, A. O.  Kempf, J. Neubert. Organizing Economic Information - An Overview of Application and Reuse Scenarios of an Economics Knowledge Organization System. Beyond the Numbers. Economics and Data for Information Professionals. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2016, St. Louis.
• A. Hajra, K. Tochtermann. Enriching Scientific Publications from LOD Repositories Through Word Embeddings Approach. In: Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2016, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Cham: Springer, 2016, 278-290, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_24
• M. Gastmeyer, M.-M. Wannags, J. Neubert. Relaunch des Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft Dynamik in der Wissensrepräsentation. In: Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 67 (4), 217-240, 2016.
• A. O. Kempf, T. Rebholz. 'Mixed Methods' Indexing: Building-Up a Multi-Level Infrastructure for Subject Indexing. Unlimited Opportunities - Classification & Indexing Satellite Meeting, IFLA 2016, Columbus.
• A. O. Kempf. Qualitätsmanagement in der Terminologiearbeit: Kontinuität im Wandel. edition - Fachzeitschrift für Terminologie, 12(1): 17-22, 2016.
• J. Neubert. Skos-history: Exploiting Web Standards for Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference Companion on World Wide Web,  275-276, 2016.
• A. O.  Kempf, J. Neubert. The Role of Thesauri in an Open Web: A Case Study of the STW Thesaurus for Economics. Knowledge Organization, 43(1): 160-173, 2016.
• A. O. Kempf, J. Neubert, M. Faden. The Missing Link: A Vocabulary Mapping Effort in Economics. Presentation at the 14th European Networked Knowledge Organization System (NKOS) Workshop, Poznan, Poland, 2015.
• A. O. Kempf, J. Neubert, M. Faden. Building the Bridge - Mapping Different Knowledge Organization Systems in Economics. Presentation at the Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing in Library and Information Science in conjunction with the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA), University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2015.
• G. Große-Bölting, C. Nishioka, A. Scherp: A Comparison of Different Strategies for Automated Semantic Document Annotation, Knowledge Capture (KCAP); Palisades, NY, USA, ACM, 2015.
• J. Neubert. Leveraging SKOS to Trace the Overhaul of the STW Thesaurus for Economics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 170-180. 2015.
• A. Latif, T. Borst, K. Tochtermann. Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data. D-Lib Magazine, 20(9/10), 2014.
• A. Hajra, A. Latif, K. Tochtermann. Retrieving and Ranking Scientific Publications from Linked Open Data Repositories. In: Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business - i-KNOW '14. Graz, Austria. 16-19 September 2014 New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014, 29:1-29:4, doi:10.1145/2637748.2638436 .
• L. Dolud, C. Kreis. Die Crosskonkordanz Wirtschaft zwischen dem STW und der GND: Ein Instrument zur kooperativen Inhaltserschließung und zur Vernetzung im Semantic Web. Dialog mit Bibliotheken, 24(2): 13-19, 2012.
• J. Neubert, K. Tochtermann. Linked Library Data: Offering a Backbone for the Semantic Web. Knowledge Technology, 2012.
• J. Neubert. Linked data based library web services for economics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 12-22, 2012.
• J. Neubert. Linked Data als Dauerbaustelle - das Beispiel des STW. DINI KIM Workshop, 2012.
• T. Groß. Automatische Indexierung von wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Dokumenten: Implementierung und Evaluierung am Beispiel der Deutschen Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Master thesis, 2010.
• T. Groß, M. Faden. Automatische Indexierung elektronischer Dokumente an der Deutschen Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, in: Bibliotheksdienst, 44(12): 1120-1135, 2010.
• J. Neubert. Normdaten im Semantic Web publizieren. Das Beispiel des Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft. 99. Deutscher Bibliothekartag, 2010.
• T. Borst, J. Neubert. STW Thesaurus for Economics Web Service applied to library applications. In: Digital Libraries: interoperability. Best Practices and Modeling Foundations, 2009.
• J. Neubert, T. Borst. Case Study: Publishing STW Thesaurus for Economics as Linked Open Data. W3C Seminar Web Use Cases and Case Studies, 2009.
• J. Neubert. Bringing the "Thesaurus for Economics" on to the Web of Linked Data. Proceedings of the WWW Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW), 2009.

Publications by other authors:

• L. Wenige. On-the-Fly Recommendation Retrieval from Linked Open Data Repositories, Jena, 2018.
• A. Satsiou et al. Semantic Technology for Financial Awareness. Proceedings of the SEMANTICS Conference, 2016.
• L. Wenige. SKOS vocabularies for ad-hoc recommendations: flexible scientific publication retrieval on the Semantic Web. Presentation at the Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing in Library and Information Science, and Classification, 6. Leipziger Bibliothekskongress, 2016.
• D. Freytag. Nicht-standardisierte Erweiterungen von SKOS-Thesauri und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Kompatibilität. University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Department III - Media, Information and Design, Bachelor thesis, 2016.
• A. Hajra, V. Radevski, K. Tochtermann. Author Profile Enrichment for Cross-Linking Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 124-136, 2015.
• O. Suominen, C. Maderan. Assessing and Improving the Quality of SKOS Vocabularies. Journal on Data Semantics, 3(1): 47-73, 2014.
• A. O. Kempf, D. Ritze, K. Eckert, B. Zapilko. New Ways of Mapping Knowledge Organization Systems: Using a Semi-Automatic Matching Procedure for Building Up Vocabulary Crosswalks. Knowledge Organization, 41(1): 66-75, 2014.
• M. L. Zeng, M. Zumer. Managing and Sharing KOS through Registries and RDFa/microdata Using a Metadata Application Profile. ASIST 2013.
• K. Eckert. Usage-driven Maintenance of Knowledge Organization Systems. University of Mannheim, 2012.
• A. Hajra, K. Tochtermann, V. Radevski. Enriching scientific publications with semantically related data. Proceedings of the 6th Balkan Conference in Informatics, 140-144, 2013.
• A. Morshed et al. Thesaurus alignment for Linked Data publishing. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2011.
• C. Caracciolo, M.L.S. Niu, Z. Xuefu, A.A. Sadanandan (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS), 2012.
• L.Y. Sean, A. A. Sadanandan, D. Lukose, K. Tochtermann. Scientific Publication Retrieval in Linked Data. Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop, 2012.
• K. Eckert: Semantic Web, SKOS und Linked Data. 4. Leipziger Kongress für Information und Bibliothek, Workshop in Kooperation mit der DINI AG KIM, 2010.
• P. Mayr, B. Zapilko, Y. Sure. Ein Mehr-Thesauri-Szenario auf Basis von SKOS und Crosskonkordanzen. 25. Oberhofer Kolloquium zur Praxis der Informationsvermittlung, 2010.
• G. Macgregor. E-resource management and the Semantic Web: applications of RDF for e-resource discovery. The E-Resources Management Handbook, 2009.
• P. Mayr, V. Petras. Building a terminology network for search: The KoMoHe Project. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2008.
• K. Eckert, H. Stuckenschmidt, M. Pfeffer. Interactive Thesaurus Assessment for Automatic Document Annotation. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), 2007.