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In this paper we expand Stefan Gradmann’s question at WWW2012 "Thinking in the graph: will Digital Humanists ever do so?" to consider whether humanists, more generally than just "digital" ones, might do thinking that is, at least to some useful degree, "in the graph" too. Drawing on the experience of the Pliny project, and recent work done within that project to explore how Pliny materials might connect with the semantic web, we explore ways in which structured "graph-like" thinking might be revealed in — to "peek out" from — parts of humanities research that is common to digital and non-digital humanists alike. Out of this, we propose a number of different ways that scholars might engage with the Semantic Web, and provide examples – arising from the building of a prototype extension to Pliny – of how these engagements could be dealt with. We also explore the challenge of ambiguity and incompleteness in scholarship, explain how 2D space operates in Pliny to cope, to some degree at least, with these issues, and consider the boundaries between the expressiveness of 2D space and the formal graph model of the Semantic Web. We end by proposing several possible avenues for future work that arise from our work so far.
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2021
2017
paper Data integration and disintegration: Managing Springer Nature SciGraph with SHACL and OWL
Industry Track, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-17), Vienna, Austria, Oct 2017.
paper Fitting Personal Interpretation with the Semantic Web: lessons learned from Pliny
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Jan 2017. Volume 11 Number 1
2015
2014
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-14), Riva del Garda, Italy, Oct 2014.
2013
paper Fitting Personal Interpretations with the Semantic Web
Digital Humanities 2013, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Jul 2013.
2012
NeDiMaH workshop on ontology based annotation, held in conjunction with Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Jul 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.
2010
paper How do philosophers think their own discipline? Reports from a knowledge elicitation experiment
European Philosophy and Computing conference, ECAP10, Munich, Germany, Oct 2010.
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Aug 2010.
paper Data integration perspectives from the London Theatres Bibliography project
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI 2010), Montreal, Canada, Jun 2010.
2009
2008
2007
paper AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets
Journal of Web Semantics, Sep 2007. Vol. 5, 2, (72-105), Elsevier
paper PhiloSURFical: browse Wittgensteinʼs Tractatus with the Semantic Web
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information - Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, Aug 2007. pp. 319-335
paper Supporting Philosophers’ Work through the Semantic Web: Ontological Issues
Fifth International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning (SWEL-07), held in conjunction with AIED-07, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, Jul 2007.
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.
2005
paper Semantic Learning Narratives
International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL-05), held in conjunction with KCAP-05, Banff, Canada, Oct 2005.
paper AquaLog A Ontology-portable Question Answering interface for the Semantic Web
2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC05), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 2005. pp. 546-562