Project
Knowledge Organization and Digital Methods in the Cultural Heritage Domain
The idea is to select arguments from a Wikipedia page: a person, a place, a concept and a date. We have chosen the Wikipedia page of Battle of Waterloo. Our idea involves Napoleone Bonaparte as person, Waterloo as place, Defeat as concept and 1815 as Date. For each of them, we have collected different kinds of items (archival documents, bibliographic entries and artifacts). After describing People, Place and Concept/Subject related to items adopting some metadata standards, we have created connections between them and to other external resources.
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Workflow
Part 1) Planning and designing
E/R model
Creation of a model to relate the idea to the person "Napoleon Bonaparte", the place "Waterloo", the date "1815" and the concept "Defeat"
Items
Choice of 10 items, mixing archival documents, bibliographical records and artifacts, able to describe the idea "Battle of Waterloo"
Metadata standards alignement
Definition of an alignment between different metadata standard related to people, place, date and concept, used by cultural heritage institutions
Theoretical model
Production of a model able to describe the chosen items replying to the questions: how to describe people? Which information about places? In which format the notion of time? What is the main content of the objects?
Conceptual model
Creation of a model by reusing existing models, as FOAF, RDFS, SKOS, DC, EAC-CPF and others
Part 2) Putting into practice and coding
Description of data
Description of data in natural language on the base of the realized conceptual model
RDF
Creation of 3 URIs for 3 different entities: (People, Place and Concept/Subject) and description in RDF/XML
Connection to authorities and other resources
Connection of the data to the same authorities for people, places and subjects, and to other resources using semantic associations
The Team
Giammarco Spinaci
Giammarco is graduated in Computer Science. He is now attending the Two Years Master Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. His main areas of interest concern Text Retrieval, Bibliometrics and Semantic Web.
Martina Dello Buono
Martina is graduated in Humanities. He is now attending the Two Years Master Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. Her main areas of interest concern Web Design, Computer Graphics and Art.
Fabio Mariani
Fabio is graduated in History. He is now attending the Two Years Master Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. His main areas of interest concern Knowledge Organization, Museology, Museography and Virtual Environments.