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Title | ||
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Knowledge engineering for historians on the example of the catalogus professorum lipsiensis |
Abstract | ||
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Although the Internet, as an ubiquitous medium for communication, publication and research, already significantly influenced the way historians work, the capabilities of the Web as a direct medium for collaboration in historic research are not much explored. We report about the application of an adaptive, semantics-based knowledge engineering approach for the development of a prosopographical knowledge base on the Web - the Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis. In order to enable historians to collect, structure and publish prosopographical knowledge an ontology was developed and knowledge engineering facilities based on the semantic data wiki On to Wiki were implemented. The resulting knowledge base contains information about more than 14.000 entities and is tightly interlinked with the emerging Web of Data. For access and exploration by other historians a number of access interfaces were developed, such as a visual SPARQL query builder, a relationship finder and a Linked Data interface. The approach is transferable to other prosopographical research projects and historical research in general, thus improving the collaboration in historic research communities and facilitating the reusability of historic research results. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1007/978-3-642-17749-1_15 | International Semantic Web Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
historic research,resulting knowledge base,prosopographical knowledge,prosopographical research project,semantics-based knowledge engineering approach,prosopographical knowledge base,historic research result,historic research community,catalogus professorum lipsiensis,knowledge engineering facility,historical research,linked data,knowledge base,web of data,knowledge engineering | Data mining,Ontology,World Wide Web,Computer science,Semantic Web,Linked data,SPARQL,Knowledge engineering,Knowledge base,Database,The Internet,Semantic data model | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
6497 | 0302-9743 | 3-642-17748-4 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
10 | 0.79 | 8 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Riechert | 1 | 32 | 3.68 |
| Ulf Morgenstern | 2 | 10 | 1.13 |
| Sören Auer | 3 | 5711 | 418.56 |
| Sebastian Dietzold | 4 | 607 | 47.53 |
| Michael Martin | 5 | 135 | 8.40 |