Linking and Populating the Digital Humanities

FAIN: HG-50032-11

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Colin Allen (Project Director: November 2010 to July 2014)

The development of tools that would allow scholars to link data between digital humanities collections, using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as a test case. .

The goals of the proposed LinkedHumanities project are to create and maintain data integration tools tailored to digital humanities collections in order to build a machine-readable "web of facts" about philosophy. The tools will interconnect structured digital representations of the humanities and leverage the created links to enrich the respective data repositories. Application testbeds include the Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). The specific outcomes of this proposal will be (a) the implementation of a linking service between the InPhO ontology and other knowledge repositories such as DBPedia and Freebase; and (b) the population of the InPhO ontology by leveraging the previously created links to other data repositories. Most importantly, however, the data integration tools will be designed to also serve the needs of other digital humanities projects.

Associated Products

Cross-Cutting Categorization Schemes in the Digital Humanities (Article)
Title: Cross-Cutting Categorization Schemes in the Digital Humanities
Author: Allen, Colin
Author: the InPho Group
Abstract: Digital access to large amounts of scholarly text presents both challenges and opportunities for researchers in the humanities. Meeting these challenges depends on having high-quality representations of the contents of digital resources suitable for both machines and humans to use. Different ways of categorizing these contents are appropriate for different purposes, leading to the further problem of relating the contents of different categorization schemes to each other. This essay discusses the rationale for categorizing philosophical concepts and surveys some of the main approaches to doing so for materials that are continuously changing. It describes the goals and methods of the Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project and provides an example of the kind of analysis that is made possible by powerful modeling methods.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/673276
Secondary URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/673276
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Isis
Publisher: History of Science Society

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