A knowledge web‐based eResearch environment for classical … · 2013-05-22 · 10.07.2009 ©Vertan‐Digital Classicist Seminar London 2 Knowledge web-based eResearch environment

Aknowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironmentforclassicalphilology

Cris%naVertanUniversityofHamburg

cris%na.vertan@uni‐hamburg.de

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Arbeitsstelle Computerphilologie

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eResearch environment web-based Knowledge

MaterialTypes Data‐Modelling Data‐Encoding Data‐Visualisa%on Func%onality

Data‐access Usermodelling Datainteroperability Sharedworking‐space Datapersistency

KnowledgeOrganisa%on (Semi‐)Automa%cknowledgeextrac%on Managementofmul%lingualdata Intelligentretrievalofheterogeneousmaterials

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Software and Hardware infrastructure

Current development and Roadmap

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• Ins%tuteforGreekandLa%nPhilology(Prof.Dr.C.Brockmann,D.Deckers,,M.Fricke,B.Pukhova,Dr.C.Vertan)• Compu%ngCenter

• AristotelesArchive–FreeUniversityBerlin(Prof.Dr.D.Harlfinger,L.Koch)

TEUCHOSResearchinfrastructurefor

classicalphilology

• Ini%alfunding2007‐2010

Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs-

und Informationssysteme (LIS)‏

ArbeitsstelleComputerphilologie(Dr.C.Vertan,Prof.Dr.Waltherv.Hahn)

Collaborative Projects with social Sciences and Humanities

MLT‐Cphil‐MulDlingualLanguageTechnologyforclassicalphilology

research• 2009‐2010

ManuscriptDescripDons

• FocusonDescrip%onsofTransmissionsofAristotleGraecus

– 2Volumes(1yetnotpublished)byD.Harlfinger

• Dataismodelledbyselec%ngfromtheDFG‐guidelinesformanuscriptdescrip%onstheitemsrelevantforpalaeographicalandcodicologicalinves%ga%on

• EncodingisdoneinTEI‐P5/msDescrip%on,withminorextensionsperformedto:

– Includemoredetaileddescrip%ononwatermarks

– Annota%onofpropernames,placesindifferentpartsofthemanuscriptdescrip%on

– Markingemptyfolios

• VisualisaDon:PrintView&ScreenView

• FuncDonality:linkswithotherobjects(watermarks,transcrip%ons,digi%sedfolios,biographicaldata)


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Material‐Types

ManuscriptDescripDon‐Modelling&Encoding


<msItemclass="empty"><locus>ff.9v</locus><locus>81v‐82v</locus><locus>152v.</locus></msItem>

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Modelling&Encoding

Empty folios

<watermarkDesc> <locus>ff.1-70</locus>: Schere, sehr ähnlich Br.3668 (Rom 1454, mit Varianten überwiegend Italien 1451-1462), sehr ähnlich <ref target =„teuxx: wHCiseaux22“> Ha., ciseaux 22 </ref>(belegt J.1441 und 1443). </watermarkDesc>

Mentioning a Watermark in msDesc

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Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Visualisa%on

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Watermarks

• ForthemomentseveralhundredsofwatermarkscollectedbyProf.Harlfingerandexistentinprintedform

• Thewatermarkswerecollectedastwin(ormore)‐listsandthereisnoclearevidencewhichelementofthelistwasiden%fiedonwhichpage.

• Addi%onaltothewatermarkmo%fswecollectalsothecountermarks.


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Watermark Model

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Modelling

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<teuwmo:teuwmObj"> <teuwmo:wmIdent wmIsCountermark="false"> <teuwmo:wmObjId>TEU_WMDesc_Fleur-134m2.xml</teuwmo:wmObjId> <teuwmm:wmIdentification> <teuwmm:wmIdnr>134</teuwmm:wmIdnr> <teuwmm:wmCollection> Harlfinger </teuwmm:wmCollection> <teuwmm:wmName> <wmNameLanguage wmLang="fr">Fleur</wmNameLanguage> <wmNameLanguage wmLang="de">Blume</wmNameLanguage> </teuwmm:wmName> </teuwmm:wmIdentification> </teuwmo:wmIdent> <teuwmo:wmManuscriptData> <teuwmo:msName>Berol. Ham. 512</teuwmo:msName> <teuwmo:msFolio>ff. 213/214; f. 215; auch f. 212</teuwmo:msFolio> <teuwmo:msDate></teuwmo:msDate> </teuwmo:wmManuscriptData> <teuwmo:wmLinks> <teuwmo:pictureLink>Fleur-134m2.tif</teuwmo:pictureLink> <teuwmo:msDescLink>Fleur-134m2.xml</teuwmo:msDescLink> <teuwmo:motifLink>Fleur.xml</teuwmo:motifLink> </teuwmo:wmLinks> </teuwmo:teuwmObj>

Watermark XML-Encoding

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Encoding

DigiDsedManuscripts

• Notacri%calmass,stressonmanuscritsnotbeingavailable,orevenunknownuptonow(Lips.Gab.19)

• Westore:• Folioimages(some%mesnotcomplete)

• Manuscriptdescrip%on• Watermarks(ifany)

• (Par%al)transcrip%ons• Rela%onswithothercri%calEdi%ons


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Materialtypes

Teuchosdatamodelformanuscripts

DC- Data

Metadaten - XML/TEI

Thumbnail

Pyramid

PID_1

...

XML-TEI Data

DC- Data

PID_1

DC- Data

Metadatta - XML/TEI

Thumbnail

Pyramid

PID_2

DC- Data

Metadata - XML/TEI

Thumbnail

Pyramid

PID_3

DC- Data

Metadata - XML/TEI

Thumbnail

Pyramid

PID_n

XML-TEI Data

DC- Data

PID_2

XML-TEI Data

DC- Data

PID_3

DC- Data (Author, Date, etc)‏ (XML-DC)‏

XML List of Structuring-Objects (TEI)‏

PID

Manuscript Description (TEI)‏ XML-TEI Data

DC- Data PID_1

StructuringObj.-Links

Dig Links

WZ-Links Watermark- Object-Data

PID_1

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Materialtypes

DigiDsedManuscripts‐Encoding

• EncodingisdonefollowingtheTEI‐P5• Structuralelements(aschapters/subchapters,inclusivein

cri%caledi%ons)aremarkedwithelement„milestone“inthetranscrip%on.Thismilestoneisponi%ngtoacomplexstructurestoredinaseparateFile.

• Inthiswayweavoidconcurrentannota%on(infactwerealiseakindofstand‐offannota%on)

• Linksaremadenotdirectlytoimagesbuttotheobjectsdescribingtheimages.Inthiswaydependingonuserrightswecanoffer(ifatall)differentimagequality

• ImagesarestoredinTiffformat,allowingaPyramidalstructure(forzooming)


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Encoding


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OtherMaterials

• Palimpsests(materialsacquiredduringtheRennascimentoVirtualeEU‐Project)– Highqualityresolu%onimages– Severallayersonthesameimage

• Biographicaldata• Bibliographicaldata• Researchar%cles


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>MaterialTypes

Challengesforthedatamodelling

• exis%ngsetsofdataaretoosmalltomodelobjectsforallcon%ngencies

• generalmodelcannotbedefined.

• Notalltypesofdata/respec%veFedoraobjectsareavailableforallmanuscripts.

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>

Web‐basedEnvironment

• Access:

– Userswithdifferentrights(usergroups)• QualityEnsurance:

– Revieweduploadingofnewdocuments&comments• DataPersistency:

– URIandPersistentIden%fiers(DOI)– StoragerealisedontheinfrastructureoftheCompu%ngcentre

• Datainteroperability

– EncodingfollowsasmuchaspossibleTEI‐P5– EnrichmentstotheTEI‐P5willbemadepubiclyavailable

– ExportinManuscriptaMaedievaliaFormat

– Import/accesstootherdigitallibraries(ENRICH,ManuscriptaMaedievalia,Piccard(Watermarks)


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement

Web‐basedEnvironment

• SharedWorkingspace:– Forumfunc%onality

– Commentscanbemadetoanyofthematerials– Synchronousaccesstodata– Versioning


Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement

Users

Public User Groups

Web-Application

Search Visual

represent. Editing Comments Web-pages

CMS

Textual Transmission Works

Descriptive Text

Minor Text

Edition data

Commentary

Translation

Forum

Watermarks

Watermark

DescripDon

Watermark‐

Image

Metdata

Watermark

Image

Metdata

Watermark

Image

Metadata

Fedora-Repository

Manuscripts

Transcrip%on

Manuscript

Descrip%on

Digit.

Manuscripts

MetadataDigit.

Manuscripts

MetadataPage

images

Metadata

Forumentries

Researchpapersand

publicaDons

Biographical

dicDonaries

Bibliography

Links Links Links Bibliogr

data Bibliogr

data Bibliogr

data

Teuchos Server

Submitting

Admin


Birmingham

ManagementofHeterogeneousData

• differentdatatypes:– semi‐structureddocuments(XML/TEI)

– high‐resolu%onRGBimages(TIFF)

– graphics(forthewatermarks)

– eMaterials(researchpapersinPDForMS‐Officeformat)

– unstructureddocuments(Forum‐ar%cles)

• Differentannota%on‐levelsanddepthamongthesemi‐structureddocuments

• mul%lingualdata

Knowledgeweb‐basedeResearchenvironement>Knowldegein...

ImplementaDonchallenges

• Naviga%onacrossdifferentdatacollec%ons(seman%clinking)

• Document/objectretrieval(beyondfull‐text/form‐basedretrieval)

• Mul%linguality


IdenDfiedtypesofmulDlinguality

• Mul%lingualityinsideonedocument

• Mul%lingualityacrossdocuments• Mul%lingualterminologyinsideodedatacollec%ontype


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Abreviations

NE

Latin

Ancient Greek

TerminologicalmulDlingualproblems

• Watermarksnames,ChapterinManuscriptdescrip%ons,otherkeywordsindifferentlanguages

• E.g.


<teuwmm:wmName> <wmNameLanguage wmLang="fr">Fleur</wmNameLanguage> <wmNameLanguage wmLang="de">Blume</wmNameLanguage> </teuwmm:wmName>

MulDlingualityacrossdocuments

• 5languages:German,French,English,Italian,Spanishacceptedas„official“languagesinsidethecommunity:– Commentscanbewripeninanyoftheselanguages– Theyhavetobelinkedtotheright(andthesame)document,

independentofthelanguage

– Mul%lingualdocumentretrieval


SoluDonsfromSemanDcWeb

• Seman%cdescrip%onsofstoredobjects(throughRDFtriples)

• „Collec%on“–Ontologyforeachtypeofdatacollec%on

• Mappingof(mul%ligual)lexicalentriesontheontology

• Ontologicalsearch


DC‐Datastream(informationsaboutAuthor,dateofpublication,encodingtype

RDF‐Datastream(informationsaboutrelationwithotherobjectsawellas

semanticdescriptionofthecurrentobject)

XML‐Datastream(codicologicalinformation)

XML‐Datastream

(linguisticinformation)

XML‐DataStream

(layoutinformation)

TEXT‐DataStream

(transciptiontext)

TIFF‐DtaStream

(image)

FedoraObjectID

DEDEDE

DEDEDE

DEDEEN

DE

DEDEDE

DEEN

watermarks

manuscripts

LexikonDE

LexikonEN

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TheWatermarkExample


<msDesc><msIden%fier><idno>1417</idno><seplement>PARIS</seplement><repository>BIBLIOTHÈQUENATIONALE,ANCIENFONDSGREC</repository></msIden%fier>.....................<physDesc><objectDesc><supportDesc><support><material>Papier</material><watermarkDesc><locus>ff.1‐7</locus>, III'‐X': Schere I, sehr ähnlichBr.3666 (Perignan 1448, mit Varianten Bayern 1445, Perignan1447/50,Mailand1448).</watermarkDesc>.......................

%tleStmt><%tle>TEIAnnota%on</%tle><author>Cris%naVertan</author></%tleStmt><publica%onStmt><availabilitystatus="free“><p>Freeforacademicpurposes</p>

</availability></publica%onStmt>

Question: „Which manuscript contains watermarks in form of scissors very similar to the motif in Br. 3666 in Milano library?“ What sort of model can make the computer answering correctly and precisely „This document 1417“,

TheWatermarkExampleGraphic

Manuscript

watermark

Scisors

ScisorI

Hr.223

Milan

ScisorV

Paris

Br.366

Album

Libraryplace

Is_a Is_a

Is_aIs_a

Is_a

Is_a

Is_similar

Is_in Is_in

Is_in

Is_in_album

has_a

Type_of

FedoracontentmanagementSystem(hYp://www.fedora.info/)

• contentmanagementsystemlargelyusedindigitallibraries

• versioningmechanism

• usermanagement

• OneFedoraObjectcangroupseveralXML‐DataStreams

• indexofobjectscanbemaintainedseman%callythroughRDF‐rela%ons

ImplementaDon

• AJAX‐TechnologiesforClient‐serverApplica%on• Viewer::Ajax‐basedUltraHighResolu%onImageViewer• Forsmallclientbasedapplica%ons(Editorsfordifferent

Components–annota%ons)‐Java‐applet

• Opensourcesoyware.


ViabilityofthesoluDon

• Teuchosplazormhasthepoten%altoillustrate,star%ngfromarealprobleminthehumani%es,thepoten%alofseman%cwebandknowledgerepresenta%onmethods.

• Mutlitlingualityisacentralproblematalllevelsoftheplazorm

• MutlilingualproblemsareincreasedduetothelackoftrainingdataandCLtoolsforoldlanguages,especiallyancientGreek.

• Ontologicaldocumentmanagementandretrievalarearealis%csolu%ongiventhefactthatthereisacloseddomain.


Currentstateofdevelopment

• Datamodelandencodingrealisedfor:

– manuscriptdescrip%ons(about80Descrip%onsmainlyAristotels)

– watermarks(about100Watermarkscollec%onHarlfinger)

– structuringtexts(3manuscripts)

– digi%sedimages(3manuscripts)

• FirstversionoftheSystempresentedattheconference“Deutsche

ArbeitsgemeinschayzurFörderungByzan%nischerStudien“

• Anewversionwillbepresentedmid‐augustat

Fédéra%oninterna%onaledesAssocia%onsd’étudesclassiques

• Detailsunder:hpp://beta.teuchos.uni‐hamburg.de/

• Implementa%onregardingknowledgerepresenta%onis

star%ngnow(prototypeDecember2009)

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