The Standing Committee on Demographic Terminology will continue IUSSP’s long-standing commitment to providing authoritative definitions of concepts, measures, and indicators used in population research. The Committee will publish and maintain dictionaries, vocabularies, and other documents in formats best suited to the needs of population scientists, students, the providers of official statistics, other scientific domains, and the general public. Whenever possible, terms will be defined in multiple languages to serve IUSSP’s global audience. Documentation will be published in both human and machine-readable forms to respond to emerging standards, such as FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
IUSSP-CODATA Working Group on FAIR Vocabularies. (2023). FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7818157
Wilkinson, M. D., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, Ij. J., Appleton, G., Axton, M., Baak, A., Blomberg, N., Boiten, J.-W., da Silva Santos, L. B., & Bourne, P. E. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
Request for Proposals:
Technical Support for a FAIR Vocabulary of Demography
- Proposals should be sent by 1 June 2024.
The IUSSP seeks partners for the creation of a Multilingual FAIR Vocabulary of Demography. The new Vocabulary will provide authoritative definitions of demographic terms in a form accessible by both humans and machines consistent with emerging standards for the semantic web.