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History ontology (HISTO)

One of the main challenges in modelling in cultural domain is the historical aspect of the content.
Our aim is to offer

  1. a systematic and consistent way to model the structure of the history-oriented content
  2. a vocabulary with equivalencies between old and modern Finnish
  3. a systematic way to exploit History ontology in diverse modelling tasks

HISTO ontology is created as part of the FinnONTO project.

Contact Person

Prof. Eero Hyvönen


Historia-ontologia (HISTO)

Eräs keskeinen haaste kulttuurisisältöjen mallintamisessa on historiallinen ulottuvuus.
Historia-ontologia pyrkii tarjoamaan

  1. järjestelmällisen ja johdonmukaisen tavan historiallisen aineiston rakenteen mallintamiseen
  2. synonyymikäsitteistön, jonka avulla historialliset sanastoille saadaan nykyaikaiset vastineet
  3. johdonmukaisen tavan hyödyntää historiaontologiaa erilaisten aineistojen kuvailussa
HISTO-ontologiaa sovelletaan KulttuuriSampo-projektissa historiallisten tapahtumien mallintamiseen ja esittämiseen.

Historiaontologian kehitystyö on osa Suomalaiset semanttisen webin ontologiat -projektia.

Lisätietoja

Prof. Eero Hyvönen

Publications

2007

Eero Hyvönen, Olli Alm and Heini Kuittinen: Using an Ontology of Historical Events in Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web Workshop at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November 12, 2007. bib pdf
We argue that an ontology of historical events is needed in semantic portals for cultural heritage due to three reasons. First, ontological identifiers (URIs) of events, such as the World War II or coronation of Napoleon, are needed in order to make collection metadata mutually interoperable in terms of related events---in the vein as identifiers are needed for identifying artifact types, persons, and geolocations when annotating collection items. Second, events are of central importance in creating semantic links between cultural contents in applications such as recommendation systems. Third, historical events are important as content items of their own, forming the backbone of chronological histories.
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