building a metrical ontology as a model to link digital poetic repertoires
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Long paper presented at the DH Conference 2014 in Lausanne. Abstract published here: http://dharchive.org/paper/DH2014/Paper-674.xmlTRANSCRIPT
Building a metrical ontologyas a model to link
digital poetic repertoires
www.remetca.uned.es
The project
• ReMetCaRepertorio 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
Technical structure
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 tocombine SQL databases
• Transforming contentinto XML tagged text
• Using standardizedprotocols of interoperability like OAI-PMH
• Not possible for non SQL databases
• Would require a lot of work on each DB
• Not enough toexpress the contentand relations of eachrepertoire
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
Castilian Metrical Ontology
Classes
Classes
Gimena del Río, CONICET, Argentina [email protected]
Clara Martínez, [email protected]
Elena González-Blanco, [email protected]