TY - CHAP
T1 - Citations and annotations in classics
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environment: Metadata, Vocabularies and Techniques in the Digital Humanities, DH-CASE 2013 - Co-located with ACM DocEng 2013
AU - Romanello, Matteo
AU - Pasin, Michele
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Annotations played a major role in Classics since the very beginning of the discipline. Some of the first attested examples of philological work, the so-called scholia, were in fact marginalia, namely comments written at the margins of a text. Over the centuries this kind of scholarship evolved until it became a genre on its own, the classical commentary, thus moving away from the text with the result that philologists had to devise a solution to linking together the commented and the commenting text. The solution to this problem is the system of canonical citations, a special kind of bibliographic references that are at the same time very precise and highly interoperable. In this paper we present HuCit, an ontology that models in depth the semantics of canonical citations. We discuss how it can be used to a) support the automatic extraction of canonical citations from texts and b) to publish them in machine-readable format on the Semantic Web. Finally, we describe how HuCit's machine-generated citation data can also be expressed as annotations by using the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) ontology, to the aim of increasing reuse and semantic interoperability.
AB - Annotations played a major role in Classics since the very beginning of the discipline. Some of the first attested examples of philological work, the so-called scholia, were in fact marginalia, namely comments written at the margins of a text. Over the centuries this kind of scholarship evolved until it became a genre on its own, the classical commentary, thus moving away from the text with the result that philologists had to devise a solution to linking together the commented and the commenting text. The solution to this problem is the system of canonical citations, a special kind of bibliographic references that are at the same time very precise and highly interoperable. In this paper we present HuCit, an ontology that models in depth the semantics of canonical citations. We discuss how it can be used to a) support the automatic extraction of canonical citations from texts and b) to publish them in machine-readable format on the Semantic Web. Finally, we describe how HuCit's machine-generated citation data can also be expressed as annotations by using the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) ontology, to the aim of increasing reuse and semantic interoperability.
KW - citations
KW - classics
KW - HuCit
KW - ontological modeling
KW - primary sources
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891050933&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2517978.2517981
DO - 10.1145/2517978.2517981
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84891050933
SN - 9781450321990
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on
PB - ACM
CY - New York
Y2 - 10 September 2013 through 10 September 2013
ER -