We describe the construction and use of the SeaLiT Ontology, an extension of the ISO standard CIDOC-CRM for the modelling and integration of maritime history information. The ontology has been developed gradually, following a bottom-up approach that required the analysis of large amounts of real primary data (archival material) as well as knowledge and validation by domain experts (maritime historians). We present the specification of the ontology, RDFS and OWL implementations, as well as knowledge graphs that make use of this data model for integrating information originating from a large and diverse set of archival documents, such as crew lists, sailors registers, naval ship registers and payrolls. We also describe an application that operates over these knowledge graphs and which supports historians in exploring and quantitatively analysing the integrated data through a user-friendly interface. Finally, we discuss aspects related to the use, evolution and sustainability of the ontology.
翻译:我们描述了海洋LiT肿瘤学的构建和使用,这是ISO CIDOC-CRM标准标准的扩展,用于海洋历史信息的建模和整合;本体学是逐步开发的,采用自下而上的方法,需要分析大量实际原始数据(档案材料)以及域专家(海洋历史学家)的知识和鉴定;我们介绍了本体学、RDFS和OWL执行的规格,以及利用这一数据模型将大量和多样的档案文件(如船员名单、水手登记册、海军船只登记册和薪给单)所产生的信息综合起来的知识图;我们还介绍了对这些知识图进行操作的应用程序,支持历史学家通过方便用户的界面探索和定量分析综合数据;最后,我们讨论了与本体学的使用、演变和可持续性有关的方方面。