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[ Works, Documents, Texts and Related Resources ] | [ Ontologies ] for everyone

[ 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.

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[ Works, Documents, Texts and Related Resources ] | [ Ontologies ] for everyone

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  1. [Works, Documents, Texts and Related Resources] | [Ontologies] for everyone Digital Humanities 2010 London, King’s College, 9th July 2010 Federico Meschini and Peter Robinson

  2. A very simple question Find me all the manuscripts which contain the first line of the Canterbury Tales To answer this question you have to: • Identify objects • Provide information about the objects • Package the objects in appropriate form

  3. Interoperabilty “the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged” IEEE That simple?

  4. Interoperabilty&Levels Stefan Gradmann, INTEROPERABILITY. A key concept for large scale, persistent digital libraries. (briefing paper) <www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/interoperability.pdf>

  5. 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.

  6. Ontology is a four-letter word “In some conferences I have been asked of not using the ‘O‘ word” James Hendler Overexpectations about the Semantic Web to solve all the Web [World] problems Relationships between XML, RDF and Relational Database

  7. 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

  8. FRBR

  9. CIDOC-CRM

  10. FRBRoo

  11. DL&OAI OAI-Object Reuse and Exchange: high-level aggregation and description of scholarly (scientific) digital items

  12. SemanticDH • 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]

  13. To conclude... “We have to (wisely)use Ontologies, we don’t have to (fully&blindly)believe in them” Øyvind Eide via Dino Buzzetti

  14. Back to our simple question Find me all the manuscripts which contain the first line of the Canterbury Tales Documents Works Texts

  15. Six basic classes document a manuscript: Hengwrt documentPart the Canterbury Tales work workPart text the text of the Canterbury Tales in the Hengwrt manuscript textPart

  16. Relationships …some triples the workPart the first line of the CT isPartOf the work the CT the document Hengwrt isContainerOf the text of the CT in the Hengwrt MS the workPart the first line of the CT hasInstance the textPart the first line of the CT in Hengwrt the transcript at http://mytranscript/Hg/CT/1 isTranscriptOf the textPart the first line of the CT in Hengwrt

  17. 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

  18. Some implications • An interface: who needs them? • Expose all metadata, all relationships • Suddenly, sustainability is easier

  19. Where we are heading • Break the Alexandria consensus • Textual communities, based on a different model of partnership between scholars and readers

  20. Federico Meschini • De Montfort University/ Loyola University Chicago Peter Robinson • University of Birmingham/ University of Saskatchewan http://www.vmr.bham.ac.uk/dwt

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