Encoding metaknowledge for historical databases

• Presented at: Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 7-12, 2014
• Published in: Digital Humanities 2014, p. 288-289
• Publication date: 2014

Historical knowledge is fundamentally uncertain. A given account of an historical event is typically based on a series of sources and on sequences of interpretation and reasoning based on these sources. Generally, the product of this historical research takes the form of a synthesis, like a narrative or a map, but does not give a precise account of the intellectual process that led to this result. Our project consists of developing a methodology, based on semantic web technologies, to encode historical knowledge, while documenting, in detail, the intellectual sequences linking the historical sources with a given encoding, also know as paradata. More generally, the aim of this methodology is to build systems capable of representing multiple historical realities, as they are used to document the underlying processes in the construction of possible knowledge spaces.

Keywords: ontology ; metaknowledge ; history ; paradata ; knowledgesystems

Reference

• EPFL-CONF-202216

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