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[ Works, Documents, Texts and Related Resources ] | [ Ontologies ] for everyone. Digital Humanities 2010 London, King’s College, 9 th July 2010. Federico Meschini and Peter Robinson. A very simple question. Find me all the manuscripts which contain the first line of the Canterbury Tales. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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[Works, Documents, Texts and Related Resources] | [Ontologies] for everyoneDigital Humanities 2010London, King’s College, 9th July 2010
Federico Meschini and Peter Robinson
To answer this question you have to:
A very simple questionFind me all the manuscripts which contain the first line of the Canterbury Tales
• Identify objects• Provide information about the objects• Package the objects in appropriate form
That simple?
Interoperabilty“the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged”IEEE
Interoperabilty&Levels
Stefan Gradmann, INTEROPERABILITY. A key concept for large scale, persistent digitallibraries. (briefing paper) <www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/interoperability.pdf>
What’s in a Word Philosophical origin, then adopted by LIS&CS domain- What is reality [existence]?- What is the identity of an object [properties and relationships] ?
From this to the [computable] “specification of a conceptualization”
From this to Description Logic, First Order Logic rules and inferences, Semantic Web [RDF/S/OWL, Triplestore, Linked Data, SPARQL], etc.
Ontology is a four-letter word
“In some conferences I have been asked of not using the ‘O‘ word”James HendlerOverexpectations about the Semantic Web to solve all the Web [World] problemsRelationships between XML, RDF and Relational Database
Textual Criticism
“There is an infinite set of facts related to the work being edited. […] Any edition records [models] a selection from the observable and the recoverable portions of this infinite set of facts”C. M. Sperberg-McQueen - How to teach your edition how to swim
FRBR
CIDOC-CRM
FRBRoo
DL&OAI
OAI-Object Reuse and Exchange: high-level aggregation and description of scholarly (scientific) digital items
- Nines [http://www.nines.org/]- Discovery [http://www.discovery-project.eu/]- Henry III Fine Rolls [http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/]- Perseus [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu]
- [...]- TEI Ontologies SIG [
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/SIG:Ontologies]
SemanticDH
“We have to (wisely) use Ontologies, we don’t have to (fully&blindly) believe in them”Øyvind Eide via Dino Buzzetti
To conclude...
Back to our simple questionFind me all the manuscripts which contain the first line of the Canterbury Tales
Documents
Works Text
s
Six basic classes
document
work
text
documentPart
workPart
textPart
a manuscript: Hengwrt
the Canterbury Tales
the text of the Canterbury Tales in the Hengwrt manuscript
Relationships …some triples
the document Hengwrt isContainerOf the text of the CT in the Hengwrt MS
the workPart the first line of the CT isPartOfthe work the CT
the workPart the first line of the CT hasInstancethe textPart the first line of the CT in Hengwrt
the transcript at http://mytranscript/Hg/CT/1 isTranscriptOfthe textPart the first line of the CT in Hengwrt
Things we like
• We can deal with documents that just contain text (not works)
• We can link together digital things (eg. transcripts) with non-digital things (eg. manuscripts)
• We just have to describe six things: use FOAF, sameAs, FRBR, CIDOC for everything else
Some implications
• An interface: who needs them?
• Expose all metadata, all relationships
• Suddenly, sustainability is easier
Where we are heading
• Break the Alexandria consensus
• Textual communities, based on a different model of partnership between scholars and readers
Federico Meschini • De Montfort University/ Loyola University ChicagoPeter Robinson • University of Birmingham/ University of Saskatchewan
http://www.vmr.bham.ac.uk/dwt