Abstract
This paper presents the rationales and the logical architecture of Geolat — Geography for Latin Literature, a project for the enrichment of Latin literature which makes use of a complex mix of TEI markup, Semantic Web technologies and formal ontologies. The purpose of Geolat is the annotation of the geographical and personal references in a corpus of Latin TEI encoded texts. These annotations are linked to a set of ontologies that give them formal semantics, and can finally be exposed the as linked open data, in order to improve the documents’ interoperability with other existing LOD and to enhance information retrieval possibilities. The paper is organized as follows: first we introduce the project in order to explain the steps needed to complete it (section 2); then we describe the ontological modeling and the TEI encoding in Geolat, by focusing on both places and persons (section 3). We then discuss the annotation data model (section 4). In conclusion, we introduce some future directions (section 5).
Highlights
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 8, 07/12/2015 Selected Papers from the 2013 TEI Conference enhance or augment the TEI model
People working with texts today have some interesting opportunities that the editorial domain is encouraging, such as: describing or enriching texts through TEI encoding; formalizing their knowledge of textual content(s) by using one or more ontologies; o ering open access to their work in order to guarantee dissemination; and making their data interoperable by means of linked open data
The availability of collections has stimulated, as a natural result, the growth of new “movements.” without digital text collections, these opportunities would be mostly theoretical; we should consider the resulting question that arises: What can we do with digital texts that cannot be done with non-digital texts? Each of the opportunities mentioned above entails interesting implications: 1. TEI encoding is su ciently exible to allow text to incorporate annotation using many di erent approaches, including structural, syntactic, and linguistic
Summary
2. Ontologies allow the formal description of speci c knowledge domains. 3. Open access tries to break existing barriers to access and fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing. 4. The linked open data (LOD) mechanism allows data and projects which were not originally intended to work together to interconnect by implementing a common method for describing and publishing data
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