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Title: Data Challenges in the Humanities: Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data


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Data Challenges in the Humanities Ontologies
and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities
Data
  • Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
  • Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester

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We are only at the beginning
Which President George W. Bush?
Which Iraq war?
From President George W. Bushs administration,
the expected volume of e-mail alone is estimated
to be more than 100 million messages
Where are the WMDs?
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The data grand challenge
  • No large data set from automated simulations
  • Intense human effort to better understand
    heterogeneous resources such as artworks, texts,
    artefacts
  • Semantics
  • Ongoing growth of corpora due to major
    digitisation projects (OCR, OMR, etc.)
  • 180 terabyte Shoa foundation archives will be no
    exception in the future

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AHDS Collections
Collection Totals as of 20/11/06 905
collectionsArch 111 collectionsExec 1
collectionHis 619 collectionsLLL 58
collectionsPA 32 collectionsVA 84 collections
Visual Arts Performing Arts
Archaeology Literature/Linguistics
History
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E-Science Theme Lectures
  • Three of them directly cover the challenges of
    Humanities Data
  • 18/06 Semantics
  • 02/07 Grid-enabling Humanities Data
  • 23/07 Space Time in Humanities e-Science

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Webcast and remote collaboration
  • You can watch this lecture online
  • You can ask questions which I will read out at
    the end
  • http//www.arts-humanities.net/event/76
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