Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data

19 June, 2007 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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The lecture will cover some of the problems of semantic interoperability for arts and humanities data. The central aim of this workshop is to discuss existing case studies and a research agenda for linking arts and humanities data in a semantic metadata management system across multiple heterogeneous collections. The lecture will cover an introduction to ontologies as a formal semantic view of data by structuring it and creating tags to define semantic relationships across collections. This introduction to ontologies will be followed by a set of examples for ontologies and annotation standards in general for the humanities. Afterwards, the scope of the investigation will be expanded and other disciplines will be included in order to present new semantic data and information integration approaches (from classical ones, like OBSERVER, TSIMMIS, Carnot, etc., to newer Semantic-Web approaches, like DWQ, KnowledgeParser, D2R, R2O, etc.). In the last part of the talk, conclusions will be delivered for the future use of ontologies in a humanities metadata management system by considering some requirements for such a system.

The two speakers include experts from the humanities and from computer science specifialised in ontological engineering. Mark Greengrass (http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/early_modern/mark_greengrass.html ) is a Professor of Early Modern History in Sheffield. He is co-investigator at the 'Ontology-based Historical Mining in Armadillo' project and will report on the experiences of that project. The second speaker is Oscar Corcho (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ocorcho/ ) who is working as a Marie Curie fellow at the Information Management Group of the University of Manchester. His research activities include the Semantic Grid, the Semantic Web, and Ontological Engineering. He participates at the European project OntoGrid and published a book about 'Ontological Engineering'. Oscar will answer to Mark's experiences in the Armadillo project and will introduce some of the latest developments in ontological engineering that might help address some of the issues involved.

Tea, coffee and cakes will be served after the lecture.

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