The 38th joined meeting of the CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9
and the 31th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting
Heraklion, Crete, 3 April 2017
Francesco Beretta
(CNRS UMR5190 LARHRA – Université de Lyon)
with the contribution of
Vincent Alamercery,
George Bruseker and Martin Doerr
Aligning the symogih.org ontology
with the CIDOC CRM:
towards a CRM extension for historical data
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1. The symogih.org project's general research agenda
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1. The symogih.org project's general research agenda
2. Producing structured historical data: the symogih.org
ontology
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1. The symogih.org project's general research agenda
2. Producing structured historical data: the symogih.org
ontology
3. Aligning the symogih.org ontology with the CIDOC CRM
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SyMoGIH : modular system for historical information management
Project existing since 2008.
About 50 scholars and students, and 15 research project, are currently
using the collaborative database to store and share historical information
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1. The symogih.org project's general research agenda
A collaborative and cumulative information system for storing historical data:
produce, share, visualise and analyse stuctured historical data
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Project specific websites
http://siprojuris.symogih.org
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General symogih.org project websites
http://symogih.org
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http://symogih.org/resource/Actr195
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symogih.org ontology
Gian Garsia Mellini
symogih:Actr255
"1606-09-11"
symogih:datation
symogih:etre_nomme
Nomination
symogih:Info93265
symogih:nommer
symogih:destination
symogih:Actr288
Paul V
symogih:SoCh370
Cardinal
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symogih:sourçage
symogih:Bibl1968
DBI, vol. 73 (2009), ...
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SPARQL-endpoint:
http://symogih.org/?q=rdf-publication
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Ontologie symogih.org
Types d'informations
et de contenus
Notices
d'autorité
Notices
d'autorité
symogih.org
Instance 2
Interface
d'alimentation
Notices
d'autorité
geo-larhra.org
Patrons
de France
Instance 3
Base
d'hébergement
de projets (BHP)
Interface
d'alimentation
Interface
d'alimentation
Interface
d'alimentation
Nouveau site 1
Nouveau site 1
Stockage collaboratif
de textes XML-TEI
(eXist-db)
Siprojuris
VIAF
ISNI
Notices
d'autorité
IdREF
BNF
Données des institutions
patrimoniales
(SUDOC, BNF, AN, HADOC, GND, …)
–
Autres données
(issues ou non de la recherche)
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Entrepôt de
données historiques nettoyées
et de textes encodés (TEI)
(curated historical data warehouse)
Data curation platform
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2. Producing structured historical data:
the symogih.org ontology
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The symogih.org generic data model :
from index cards to a digital information system
Knowledge units : atomized
statements expressing
relationships between objects
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Letter by cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini,
Roma, 12 April 1615
Cardinal Bellarmine
Paolo Antonio
Foscarini
Roma
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Letter by cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini,
Roma, 12 April 1615
Letter
receiver
location
Paolo Antonio
Foscarini
sender
Roma
Cardinal Bellarmine
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Letter by cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini,
Roma, 12 April 1615
knowledge unit
Letter
receiver
role
location
role
Paolo Antonio
Foscarini
object
sender
role
Roma
object
Cardinal Bellarmine
object
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Letter by cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini,
Roma, 12 April 1615, OG XV, 333-555
Cardinal Bellarmine
sender
object
1615-04-12
role
receiver
Paolo Antonio
Foscarini
role
dates
dating
Letter
knowledge unit
sources
object
OG XV, 333-555
location
sourcing
role
Roma
object
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The symogih.org ontology
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Dating and sourcing
The issue of historical knowledge reliability :
sourcing and historical criticism
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The instances of the generic data model
are defined collaboratively
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The definition of each instance ot the data model is publicly available
http://symogih.org
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« Galileo Galilei taught mathematics at the University of Padua
from 1592 and 1610 » [Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 51]
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Galileo Galilei taught mathematics at the University of Padua
from 1592 and 1610
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Ongoing collaborative projects
1. Heloise - European Network on Digital Academic History
http://heloisenetwork.eu/
2. Consortium Data for history
3. histHub : standard vocabularies for Swiss historical data
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3. Aligning the symogih.org ontology with the CIDOC – CRM :
towards a CRM extension for historical data
http://tinyurl.com/crm-hist
http://ontologies.symogih.org/index.html
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symogih:KnowledgeUnit / dolce:Perdurant
symogih:Object / dolce:Endurant
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E55 Type
E2 Temporal entity
E77 Persistent item
The symogih.org ontology as a controlled vocabulary for
expressing the instances of the knowledge units’ and roles’ types
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From roles
to properties
E55 Type
E2 Temporal entity
E77 Persistent item
P12 occurred in the presence of (was present at)
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E55 Type
Class
Property
E2 Temporal entity
E77 Persistent item
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Major issues under discussion
Events or states ?
Sourcing
Dating
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Teaching as a status (not as an event)
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Property P51_has_former_or_current_owner
of the CIDOC CRM version 6.2
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The issue of historical knowledge reliability :
sourcing and historical criticism
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A knowledge unit in form of structured data :
Encoding historical data in XML
using the symogih.org ontology :
<p corresp="Info94542">In <date when="1592" ana="AbOb1321">1592</date>,
<rs ref="Actr161">he</rs> [Galileo Galilei] moved to the <name
ref="CoAc54">University of Padua</name> where he taught geometry,
mechanics, and astronomy until <date when="1610"
ana="AbOb256">1610</date>. </p>
<p ana="TyIn97">In <date when="1592" ana="AbOb1321">1592</date>, <rs
ref="Actr161" ana="TyRo12">he</rs> [Galileo Galilei] moved to the
<name ref="CoAc54" ana="TyRo21">University of Padua</name>
where he taught <name ref="AbOb279" ana="TyRo131">geometry</name>,
<name ana="TyRo131">mechanics</name>, and <name
ref="AbOb239" ana="TyRo131">astronomy</name> until <date
when="1610" ana="AbOb256">1610</date>. </p>
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E2 Temporal entity
E13 Attribute assignement
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E7_Activity
E2 Temporal entity
Assertion
[of existence]
E13 Attribute assignement
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The issue of dating
E52_Time-Span
E61_Time_Primitive
E2 Temporal entity
E13 Attribute assignement
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Conclusion :
still a lot of work to be done !
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The 38th joined meeting of the CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9
and the 31th FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting
Heraklion, Crete, 3 April 2017
Francesco Beretta
(CNRS UMR5190 LARHRA – Université de Lyon)
with the contribution of
Vincent Alamercery,
George Bruseker and Martin Doerr
How to build a tool
for collaboratively managing ontologies
in the context of the CIDOC-CRM
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CRM extension for historical data
http://tinyurl.com/crm-hist
http://ontologies.symogih.org/index.html
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