Knowledge engineering for historians on the example of the catalogus professorum lipsiensis

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Riechert;Ulf Morgenstern;Sören Auer;Sebastian Tramp;Michael Martin

  • Affiliations:

  • AKSW, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig;Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig, Pf Leipzig;AKSW, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig;AKSW, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig;AKSW, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'10 Proceedings of the 9th international semantic web conference on The semantic web - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.