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Structured Prosopography provides a formal model for representing prosopography: a branch of historical research that traditionally has focused on the identification of people that appear in historical sources. Since the 1990s, KCL’s Department of Digital Humanities has been involved in the development of structured prosopographical databases using a general "factoid-oriented" model of structure that links people to the information about them via spots in primary sources that assert that information. Recent developments, particularly the WWW, and its related technologies around the Semantic Web have promoted the possibility to both interconnecting dispersed data, and allowing it to be queried semantically. To the purpose making available our prosopographical databases on the semantic web, in this article we review the principles behind our established factoid-based approach and reformulate it using a more transparent approach, based on knowledge representation principles and formal ontologies. In particular, we are going to focus primarily on a high-level semantic analysis of the factoid notion, on its relation to other cultural heritage standards such as CIDOC-CRM, and on the modularity and extensibility of the proposed solutions.
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2014
paper Factoid-based Prosopography and Computer Ontologies: towards an integrated approach
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Dec 2014. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqt037
2013
New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, (forthcoming). (part of the 'Envisioning REED in the Digital Age' collection)
2012
2011
paper Semantic Web Approaches in Digital History: an Introduction
Lecture slides from the Course on digital history, part of the master in Digital Humanities at King's College, London., Oct 2011.
Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities, Lawrence, Kansas, Sep 2011.
2009
paper PhiloSURFical: An Ontological Approach To Support Philosophy Learning
Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, Oct 2009. D. Dicheva, R. Mizoguchi, J. Greer (Eds.), vol. 4 The Future of Learning, IOS Press
2006
paper A Task Based Approach to Support Situating Learning for the Semantic Web
International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL-06), held in conjunction with Adaptive Hypermedia 2006, Dublin, Ireland, Jun 2006.
Poster paper presented at the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-06), Budva, Montenegro, Jun 2006.