LINHD

Digital Humanities

Innovation Lab

2

Why?

Digital Agenda for Europe

Institutional commitment to

INNOVATION:

Pioneer in Spain

"Linked data"

New model of

university:

Changes in the

academic and

researcher

enviroment Humanities Technology

New model of

Interdisciplinary

RESEARCH CENTRE:

+

GOALS AND FUNCTIONS

Innovation

Consultancy and technological

services

Information and

training

LINHD

Interoperability Projects

http://linhd.uned.es/

LINHD. Linked Data Commitment

DiRePo

The big project of semantic

web at the UNED

Linked Data at the UNED

Data at the UNED nowadays

Relationship

enterprises-

university

Research

groups

Research

institutes

Libraries

Research

centers

Research

apps

OTRI

Office apps

Data of the

university staff

Relationship enterprises-university

Research institutes

Libraries

Research Centers

Researcher

app

OTRI

Offices apps

Semantic

UNED:

UNEDATA

UNEDATA LINKED DATA

Data of the

university

staff

Publicize UNED

UNEDATA Advantages

More visibility and impact in the

researchers work – Open Access

More efficiency in our research

Exploitation of the richness of spread

data

Possibilities of ampliation through

linking UNED to other universities

Project phases

Data analysis and preparation of the

infrastructure

Ontologies design and modeling

Development and implementation

Visualization and information

retrieval

DIREPO

Linking digital poetic repertoires

www.remetca.uned.es

The project

ReMetCa Repertorio Métrico Digital de la Poesía Medieval Castellana

(Digital Repertoire on the Metrics of the Medieval Castilian

Poetry)

2011

Tool to study and research on

Medieval Castilian Poetry

Metrical repertoires:

From paper to digital

Metrical repertoires:

From paper to digital

Metrical repertoires:

From paper to digital

Why don’t we link repertoires?

How to link repertoires

Issues to consider

Different structure and level of complexity

Different content and antiquity

Different technological systems

SQL databases

Propietary RDBMS systems

XML tagged text

Different levels of access

Interoperability solutions

• Using SQL forms to combine SQL databases

• Transforming content into XML tagged text

• Using standardized protocols of interoperability like OAI-PMH

• Not possible for non SQL databases

• Would require a lot of work on each DB

• Not enough to express the content and relations of each repertoire

Solution

Linked data challenge

Why a linked data model

Based on metadata added to existing

databases

Does not alter the internal structure of

each repertoire

Code is published as linked data

available on the web

Extensible and flexible model

Steps to implement the model

Modelling a common ontology

Identification of fields corresponding to

metadata in each database

Data ingest and data curation

Establishement of a SPARQL endpoint

Visualization tools and apps

We are here…

Modelling a common ontology for

poetical repertoires

Some issues

No previous ontology on poetry

existed

Need of standardization of some fields

(eg: metrical and rhythmical scheme)

Need to create controlled

vocabularies to organize information

ReMetCa’s choice

OWL Full

Double Ontology system combined

General ontology – for interoperability

purposes

Poetry ontology – specific for Castilian

poetry problems

The Ontology

POEM

Author

Title

Incipit

Manuscript

Post quem

Ante quem

Language

Topics

Edition

Online edition

POEM

Isometrism

Isostrophism

Metrical scheme

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme

Musical notation

Number of stanzas

Number of lines

Poetic form

POEM

Author

Title

Incipit

Manuscript

Post quem

Ante quem

Language

Topics

Edition

Online edition

Work

POEM

Isometrism

Isostrophism

Metrical scheme

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme

Musical notation

Number of stanzas

Number of lines

Poetic form

Classes

POEM

Author

Title

Incipit

Manuscript

Post quem

Ante quem

Language

Topics

Edition

Online edition

Work

POEM

Isometrism

Isostrophism

Metrical scheme

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme

Musical notation

Number of stanzas

Number of lines

Poetic form

Object Properties

POEM

Author

Title

Incipit

Manuscript

Post quem

Ante quem

Language

Topics

Edition

Online edition

Work

POEM

Isometrism

Isostrophism

Metrical scheme

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme

Musical notation

Number of stanzas

Number of lines

Poetic form

Data Properties