tei-ontology-sig

[TEI-ontology-SIG] How to use TEI and ontologies?

[Conal T. <Con...@vu...>]

=D8yvind Eide:

> This will not be a very high traffic list, I would suppose. From the
> conveners' side, we will post when we have questions we would like to
> discuss, or to inform the members of interesting articles or work
> reports. If anyone else wants to start a discussion, please do!

OK, I'll kick off :-)

Who is using TEI in conjunction with ontologies, and how are you doing =
it?

Briefly, at the NZETC we are starting to use TEI with the CIDOC CRM (a =
museum ontology), using Topic Maps as our implementation technology. We =
are also using MADS for authority metadata (canonical names etc. of =
people, places...)

The linkages from the TEI are primarily encoded using the TEI <name> =
element, with key attribute pointing at external topics. The nature of =
each such linkage is normally defined by the parent element of the =
<name> element. e.g. <author><name key=3D"blah">Mr B. =
Blah</name></author> would produce an "authorship" association between =
the person "Mr B Blah" and the TEI document.

We are not presently using any of the more directly ontological features =
of TEI like feature structures and taxonomies.

Cheers

Con

Re: [TEI-ontology-SIG] How to use TEI and ontologies?

[Christian W. <wi...@ka...>]

"Conal Tuohy" <Con...@vu...> writes:

> =D8yvind Eide:
>
>> This will not be a very high traffic list, I would suppose. From the
>> conveners' side, we will post when we have questions we would like to
>> discuss, or to inform the members of interesting articles or work
>> reports. If anyone else wants to start a discussion, please do!
>
> OK, I'll kick off :-)
>
> Who is using TEI in conjunction with ontologies, and how are you doing it?

We are using TEI with a homegrown ontology for the Tang Knowledgebase
Project here in Kyoto.  We do quite similar things (e.g. linking from
<name> and other elements) and are also using TopicMap technology.  We
are working with texts, rather than bibliographies, so the association
is in most cases not immediately derived from the context.

At the moment, one of the headaches is a software environment for
maintaining this stuff and so we are at the beginning of developing
our own stuff with eXist and some Java libraries.  I would be very
interested to hear what kind of s/w environment other projects are
using.  We did try the OKS Suite from Ontopia, but it choked on some
of the larger topicmaps.

All the best,

Christian

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 Christian Wittern=20
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

Re: [TEI-ontology-SIG] How to use TEI and ontologies?

[Peter B. <pb...@xs...>]

> Who is using TEI in conjunction with ontologies, and how are you doing it?

I'm trying to encode aspects of interpretation of literary works. There 
are ptr and xptr elements in a TEI-encoded XML file, to which I link 
from an RDF file. The ontology is developed ad hoc, based on the kind of 
things I want to describe in the work at stake. The ontology at present 
is created as an RDF Schema.

Both the ontology and the RDF instance file are created more or less 
manually in an XML editor. Querying is done through a php application 
that uses the RDF API for PHP; for performance reasons the RDF(S) data 
are being stored in a MySQL database.

Especially in creating the instance file I will need software support. 
The software will have to be aware of the ontology, but it should also 
somehow have to know what elements in a TEI file are the elements that I 
want to annotate. And it should automatically add derived triples (my 
annotations are annotations of fragments of text; I want to generate 
corresponding annotations on the higher level textual units that contain 
these fragments).

Best regards,
Peter

Re: [TEI-ontology-SIG] How to use TEI and ontologies?

[E. <oyv...@mu...>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:53:59AM +1300, Conal Tuohy wrote:
> Who is using TEI in conjunction with ontologies, and how are you doing it?

Our main work on encoded text and ontologies is based on printed
museum catalogues. These catalogues, from archaeological and
ethnographic museums, were printed as annual "aquisition catalogues"
from the 19th century to late 20th century. When we digitized them in
the 1990s, we did the digitizing by scanning/OCR reading and SGML
tagging of the texts in the printed catalogues. The tagging was based
on a local DTD developed in the early 1990s.

We are currently importing the data into an event oriented, CIDOC-CRM
based database. This means that we are doing a mapping from the SGML
tagged text to CIDOC-CRM. While this is not directly TEI work, the
process would have been quite similar if the SGML data had been
encoded in TEI.

There is a short description of the work in this abstract: Holmen, J:
"From an XML tagged acquisition catalogue to an event based relation
database" at the DRH 2004 conference, URL:
http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/abstract.php?abstract=168

There is also an article forthcoming in the proceedings of the CAA
Conference due to be published next spring. I will notify the list
when it is out.

Apart from that, we are also working along similar lines as Conal
Tuohy, Christian Wittern and Peter Boot, but it is in quite an early
stage. I hope to be able to report more on that in a few months!


Kind regards,

Øyvind Eide