- From: Jim McCusker <mccusker@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:34:00 -0500
- To: "WILDER, COLIN" <WILDERCF@mailbox.sc.edu>
- Cc: "public-esw-thes@w3.org" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAAtgn=RdwfC866TATo3LHBb1jghcTYVyt+OYGMwpnaPyabHkPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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, > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Anyway, if you can offer me any guidance I would be very grateful. > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Colin Wilder > > > > > > > > ---------------- > > Dr. Colin F. Wilder > > Associate Director > > Center for Digital Humanities (website <http://cdh.sc.edu/>; projects page<http://cdh.sc.edu/projects> > ) > > Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina > > 1322 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208 > > Phones: office (803) 777-2810 & mobile (603) 831-3998 > > Emails: wildercf@mailbox.sc.edu & colinwilder@gmail.com > > open office hours<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a3goggjedb5j2qjjn3p6vaeki0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York>(use week view in upper right) > > frango ut patefaciam > > > -- Jim McCusker Data Scientist 5AM Solutions jmccusker@5amsolutions.com http://5amsolutions.com PhD Student Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mccusj@cs.rpi.edu http://tw.rpi.edu
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