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vocabulary depend on each other and interact with each other.
The paper focuses on the vocabulary development from the perspective of the ecosystem,
instead of being restricted to the vocabulary itself, organically considers the various components
of ecosystem and their relationships. To study the problem of vocabulary construction from the
perspective of dynamic development and its interactive relationship is of great significance for the
vocabulary to maintain long-term vitality and high quality.
The paper uses a systematic analysis method to analyze the vocabulary, information
technology, resource, and personnel of the vocabulary ecosystem. And it explains the possible
impact of each element on the vocabulary ecosystem in terms of quality, function, and evolution
characteristics. The literature research method and data analysis method are used to sort out
the types of horizontal and vertical interweaving relationships generated in the vocabulary
ecosystem.
The paper considers that high-quality vocabularies should be constructed from the aspects of
semantics, grammar, availability and interoperability. From the view of the vocabulary life cycle,
the relationship between producers, providers, managers, users and other responsible persons is
analyzed longitudinally, which aims to overall grasp the interrelationship of all responsible persons
in the life cycle chain. The vocabulary providers build a bridge between the vocabulary producers
and users. And the vocabulary managers become an intermediary between the vocabulary
producers and providers. The feedback information of the vocabulary users is helpful to form a
well-ordered and value-grading knowledge transfer and utilization system. The paper also analyzes
the horizontal relationship between two vocabularies, and the vocabulary and the data set, and
subdivides relationships into reuse, mapping, restriction, metadata, and co-occurrence between
vocabularies. It is considered that various relationships occur at different stages of the vocabulary
life cycle. The reuse, mapping, and restriction relationships occur mostly during the vocabulary
construction stage, the metadata relationship arises during the vocabulary release stage, and the
co-occurrence relationship occurs during the use of the vocabulary. The relationships between
the vocabulary and the data set include reuse and creation. By reusing existing vocabularies or
creating new vocabularies, the data set can have a clear semantic structure, which can be used in
the future.

The construction and linked data publishing of Dunhuang mural thesaurus
WANG Xiaoguang〇, HOU Xilong, CHENG Hanghang & XIA Shengping
〇a*
Thesauri play an important role in knowledge organization. Nevertheless, the absence of
Dunhuang mural thesaurus sets limits on Dunhuang mural studies and its value exploration.

* Correspondence should be addressed to WANG Xiaoguang, Email: wxguang@whu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0003-1284-7164.