/DH.arc Vocabularies: Making semantic artefacts more visible and accessible using SKOS

This paper presents /DH.arc Vocabularies, a repository for semantic artefacts built using Skosmos and intended to make non-conventional research products such as ontologies and controlled vocabularies created by the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Bologna more visible and accessible. The paper defines semantic artefacts, their importance, and the need to increase their FAIRness before reviewing related work and available technology and giving an overview of the repository, including why Skosmos was chosen, how it was implemented, and the publishing process which includes transforming ontologies written in OWL into SKOS in order to enable their browsing via the interface, a novel approach to existing uses of Skosmos in the fields of cultural heritage and Digital Humanities.