An ontology-based approach to exploring connections between historical events
Exploring connections between events is paramount to any historical and philosophical investigation. Historians will always be eager to draw connections between events, so that they can better establish the significance of certain happenings and measure their impact effectively. Seeking out information in historical and philosophical domains is complex, multifaceted and requires unveiling and exploring new associations and relationships between happenings. Although several event models and information systems for handling connections between events have been developed so far, there is a lack of formal approaches to build a framework for connecting historical events. Our work contributes to the field of Computing for Humanities, i.e. the field that bridges humanities disciplines and computational approaches. The aim of this research is to describe a formal approach for generating Semantic Trajectories, defined as logically constructed paths derived from an Event Ontology and semantically enriched by using a set of rules as well as connection templates definitions. Our approach employs Semantic Trajectories to help users discover key ideas and explore relevant connections, and it is illustrated in a case study
Corda, Ilaria
An ontology-based approach to exploring connections between historical events. Exploring connections between events is paramount to any historical and philosophical investigation. Historians will always be eager to draw connections between events, so that they can better establish the significance of certain happenings and measure their impact effectively. Seeking out information in historical and philosophical domains is complex, multifaceted and requires unveiling and exploring new associations and relationships between happenings. Although several event models and information systems for handling connections between events have been developed so far, there is a lack of formal approaches to build a framework for connecting historical events. Our work contributes to the field of Computing for Humanities, i.e. the field that bridges humanities disciplines and computational approaches. The aim of this research is to describe a formal approach for generating Semantic Trajectories, defined as logically constructed paths derived from an Event Ontology and semantically enriched by using a set of rules as well as connection templates definitions. Our approach employs Semantic Trajectories to help users discover key ideas and explore relevant connections, and it is illustrated in a case study
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