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Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester

Data Challenges in the Humanities: ‘ Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data’. Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester. We are only at the beginning. Which President George W. Bush?. Which Iraq war?.

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Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester

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  1. Data Challenges in the Humanities:‘ Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data’ Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester

  2. We are only at the beginning Which President George W. Bush? Which Iraq war? From President George W. Bush’s administration, the expected volume of e-mail alone is estimated to be more than 100 million messages … Where are the WMDs?

  3. The data grand challenge • No large data set from automated simulations • Intense human effort to better understand heterogeneous resources such as artworks, texts, artefacts • Semantics • Ongoing growth of corpora due to major digitisation projects (OCR, OMR, etc.) • 180 terabyte Shoa foundation archives will be no exception in the future

  4. AHDS Collections Collection Totals as of 20/11/06: 905 collectionsArch: 111 collectionsExec: 1 collectionHis: 619 collectionsLLL: 58 collectionsPA: 32 collectionsVA: 84 collections Visual Arts Performing Arts Archaeology Literature/Linguistics History

  5. E-Science Theme Lectures Three of them directly cover the challenges of Humanities Data • 18/06: Semantics • 02/07: Grid-enabling Humanities Data • 23/07: Space Time in Humanities e-Science

  6. Webcast and remote collaboration • You can watch this lecture online • You can ask questions which I will read out at the end: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/76

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