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Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data

I – The Fate of ‘Grand Design’ Ontologies

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• TGN [Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names]:-http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

• ULAN [Union List of ARTIST NAMES]http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

• CULTOShttp://www.cultos.org/

• ONTOPIAwww.ontopia.net/operamap/

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Primary sources (historical documents; images; artefacts) in electronic mediaWeb-

based ‘secondary’ historical writing/materials

‘top-down ontologies’ (generated from discipline-accepted taxonomies)

‘bottom-up ontologies’ (generated from a representative sample of canonical data

‘middle-out ontologies’ (generated by intelligent iteration)

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John Wilkins, An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668)

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Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data

II – …Show Me the Way to Historillo

Mark Greengrass

Armadillo

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Sources

Metropolitan London in the

1690sIHR

House of Lords JournalsBOPCRIS

St. Martin’s Settlement

Exams IndexWESTCAT

The Marine Society Registers

Collage image databse

Guildhall Library

Eighteenth Century Fire

Insurance Policies

Selected Criminal Records

PRO

John Strype’s “Survey…”

Prerogative Court of

Canterbury Wills

The Westminster Historical Database

Harben’s Dictionary of

London

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey AHDS Deposits

http://www.motco.com

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The Old Bailey Proceedings: XML

<trial><p>

<person> <defend gender="m"><given>William</given><surname>Mawn</surname></defend> </person> was Tryed for <off> <theft type="animals">stealing a Bay Gelding price 20 l.</theft> </off> from one <victim gender="m"><given>Thomas</given><surname>Lane</surname></victim> out of Berkshire on the <cd>25th of April</cd>. The Witness swore that the Horse was found in the Prisoner's custody in Smithfield, which the Prosecutor owned to be his. The Prisoner could not produce any Evidence to prove that he came honestly by the Horse only produc'd a Felonious person, that was no stranger to Newgate, who went under the Notion of his Man, he declared that the Prisoner bought the Horse upon the Road beyond Uxbridge. The Prisoners being found in several faultering stories, he was found <verdict> <guilty>Guilty</guilty> </verdict>.</p> <p> <punish><death><note type="editorial">[Death. See summary.]</note></death></punish> </p> </trial>

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Canterbury Wills: Delimited Text

2530553 W Agnes Kervill or Kervytt2530553 W Andrew Bridham London

2530553 W Andrew Pykeman London

2530553 W Austin Hawkyns2530553 W Cecilia Foster2530553 W Christian Chepman2530553 W Christian Cust2530553 W David Syadine Bristol,2530553 W Edmund Bybbesworth2530553 W Edward Wellys Hadley, 2530553 W Ellen Lacy Widow Saint Pe2530553 W GerardHeshull2530553 W Guy Shuldham2530553 W Helmingus Leget2530553 W Henry Porter2530553 W Henry Warlegh Keynesha2530553 W Henry Wellis2530553 W Hugh Caundyssh2530553 W Hugh Geynesburgh Rector2530553 W Isabelle Woodhill

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