Title: Data Challenges in the Humanities: Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data
1Data Challenges in the Humanities Ontologies
and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities
Data
- Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
- Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester
2We 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?
3The 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
4AHDS 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
5E-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
6Webcast 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