2021
Journal article  Open Access

Towards a knowledge base of medieval and renaissance geographical Latin works: the IMAGO ontology

Bartalesi V., Metilli D., Pratelli N., Pontari P.

Ontology  Ancient manuscript  Linked data  Semantic web  Geography 

In this article we present the first achievement of the Index Medii Aevi Geographiae Operum (IMAGO)--Italian National Research Project (2020-23), that is, the ontology we have created in order to formally represent the knowledge about the geographical works written in Middle Ages and Renaissance (6th-15th centuries). The IMAGO ontology is derived from a strict collaboration between the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the scholars who are involved in the project, who have supported ISTI-CNR in defining a conceptualization of the domain of knowledge. Following the re-use logic, we have selected as reference ontologies the International Committee on Documentation CRM vocabulary and its extension FRBRoo, including its in-progress reformulation, LRMoo. This research is included in a wider project context whose final aim is the creation of a knowledge base (KB) of Latin geographic literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Humanism in which the data are formally represented following the Linked Open Data paradigm and using the Semantic Web languages. At the end of the project, this KB will be accessed through a Web application that allows retrieving and consulting the collected data in a user-friendly way for scholars and general users, e.g. tables, maps, CSV files.

Source: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2021). doi:10.1093/llc/fqab060

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, Regno Unito


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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:455198,
	title = {Towards a knowledge base of medieval and renaissance geographical Latin works: the IMAGO ontology},
	author = {Bartalesi V. and Metilli D. and Pratelli N. and Pontari P.},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, Regno Unito},
	doi = {10.1093/llc/fqab060},
	journal = {Digital Scholarship in the Humanities},
	year = {2021}
}