Re: FAQ- structured data about historical book collections

For historical collections, the PROV ontology makes it possible to talk
about historical things using prov:specializatonOf,
prov:wasGeneratedAtTime, and prov:wasInvalidatedAtTime. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/#alternate-entities-and-specialization-1for
an example. There would be, essentially, "revisions" of the library
catalog that are linked together to a more abstract "time-invariant
catalog". This concept is similar to FRBR's relationship between Expression
and Work.

Jim


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:43 AM, WILDER, COLIN <WILDERCF@mailbox.sc.edu>wrote:

>  Dear W3C,
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> I am relatively new to the semantic web. I am the associate director of
> the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina in
> the US. Over the past year we have created a web-based data curation
> platform for historical humanities research called RL (
> http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/rol/). Right now we are preparing a proposal to
> expand the program to include pulling in linked data from the web and
> pushing out public data in RL’s data commons as LOD. We have tracked down
> what we think are appropriate vocabularies to describe most of the entity
> types in RL (persons, their relationships, books they’ve written), but are
> still having a hard time finding vocabulary for a few outstanding types.
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> One is historical book collections, for instance the catalog of 1000 books
> in the Frankfurt Public Library two centuries ago. Such information might
> be published in RL and we would like to find a way to structure it as LOD
> to publish and share it on the web. Another data type is enrollment in a
> class – to describe person X as having taken class C from person Y. A third
> type would be travel – to show that persons X and Y took a trip together,
> traveling say from place M to place N, leaving at one time and arriving at
> another.
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> Anyway, if you can offer me any guidance I would be very grateful.
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> Thanks again,
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> Colin Wilder
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> Dr. Colin F. Wilder
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> Associate Director
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> Center for Digital Humanities (website <http://cdh.sc.edu/>; projects page<http://cdh.sc.edu/projects>
> )
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