Towards a formal ontology for history of church administration

  • Authors:

  • Pawel Garbacz;Robert Trypuz;Bogumil Szady;Piotr Kulicki;Przemyslaw Gradzki;Marek Lechniak

  • Affiliations:

  • John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy;John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy;John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities;John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy;John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy;John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper presents preliminary results in the area of ontological engineering for historical research. Historical information systems are still in the initial stage of development. Our experience hitherto shows that the decisive stage in the development of such systems is a conceptual model and ontological engineering seems to be the right tool to build it. Our particular aim is to develop a database system for the history of the administrative structure of the Catholic Church in Central-Eastern Europe in the so-called pre-statical period, i.e. roughly from XII to XIX century. We use DOLCE as a foundational ontology, especially its part concerning social objects. We build an axiomatic system that formally defines the basic notions of those structures and may be interpreted as the conceptual scheme of this database.