8. Resources

This page lists useful software tools, services and tutorials relating to the contents of the Guide. It is by no means complete and presents only a small selection, mainly from a digital humanities perspective. You will notice that when referring to a software program I link to a Wikipedia article entry rather than the software’s corporate website. This is because the URLs of the Wikipedia articles are less likely to change than corporate web pages.

8.1. Further reading about data ontologies

Burrows, T. (2011). ‘Ontology Learning and the Humanities‘. IN: W. Wong, W. Liu, & M. Bennamoun (Eds.), Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances (pp. 186-199). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-60960-625-1.ch010

CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM)

Doerr, M. (2003). ‘The CIDOC CRM – an Ontological Approach to Semantic Interoperability of Metadata‘. Ai Magazine – AIM. 24.

Gartner, R. (2019). ‘Towards an ontology-based iconography‘. IN: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 43–53.

Horridge, M. (2011). ‘A Practical Guide To Building OWL Ontologies Using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools‘. Manchester: University of Manchester.

Jansen, L. (2019). ‘Ontologies for the Digital Humanities: Learning from the Life Sciences?‘. University of Rostock and Ruhr University Bochum.

Jordanous, A., Stanley, A. and Tupman, C. (2012). ‘Contemporary transformation of ancient documents for recording and retrieving maximum information: when one form of markup is not enough‘. IN: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 8 (2012). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol8.Jordanous01.

Kyvernitou, I; Bikakis, A; (2017) ‘An Ontology for Gendered Content Representation of Cultural Heritage Artefacts‘. IN: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11 (3) [pre-print version].

Langmead A. et al. (2016). ‘Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities‘. IN: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 10:1, 22-35.

Noy, N. F. and McGuinness, D. L. ‘Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology‘. Stanford: Stanford University.

Rashid, S. M., De Roure, D., and McGuinness, D. L. (2018). ‘A music theory ontology‘. 6–14.

Vieira, J. and Ciula, A. ‘Implementing an RDF/OWL Ontology on Henry the III Fine Rolls‘.

8.2. Online guides and tutorials

O4DH: Ontologies for Digital Humanities

Awesome Ontologies for Digital Humanities

XML Tutorial by W3 Schools

XML Schema (XSD) Tutorial by W3 Schools

XML RDF Tutorial by W3 Schools

Protégé 5 Documentation

Data Modelling: Conceptual, Logical, Physical Data Model Types

Watt, A. and Eng, N. (2014). Database Design — 2nd Edition

8.3. Software for designing ontologies and creating data

Oxygen XML Editor — generic XML editor which can be used to design ontology schemas and then apply them to text data.

XMeTaL— generic XML editor which can be used to design ontology schemas and then apply them to text data.

Comparison of XML editors

Protégé — a dedicated ontology editor. Free.

Lucidchart — an online tool for drawing charts and diagrams (such as the ones in this guide). Free and paid subscriptions.

Neo4j — a graph database management system for storing, querying and visualising graph-based data (e.g. triplestores). Free.

8.4. Digital Humanities projects which have used ontologies

Beyond the Multiplex

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

Henry III Fine Rolls Project

Intoxicants and Late Modernity

Sharing Ancient Wisdoms

The Music Ontology

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