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JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)
Data Challenges in the Humanities:
‘ Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data’
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester
JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)
We are only at the beginning
From President George W. Bush’s administration, the expected volume of e-mail alone is estimated to be more than 100 million messages …
Which President George W. Bush?
Which Iraq war?
Where are the WMDs?
JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)
The data grand challenge • No large data set from automated
simulations• Intense human effort to better
understand heterogeneous resources such as artworks, texts, artefacts
• Semantics• Ongoing growth of corpora due to major
digitisation projects (OCR, OMR, etc.)• 180 terabyte Shoa foundation archives
will be no exception in the future
JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)AHDS Collections
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Collection Totals as of 20/11/06: 905 collectionsArch: 111 collectionsExec: 1 collectionHis: 619 collectionsLLL: 58 collectionsPA: 32 collectionsVA: 84 collections
AHDS Collections
JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)
E-Science Theme Lectures
Three of them directly cover the challenges of Humanities Data
• 18/06: Semantics• 02/07: Grid-enabling Humanities
Data• 23/07: Space Time in Humanities
e-Science
JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk)
• You can watch this lecture online
• You can ask questions which I will read out at the end:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/76
Webcast and remote collaboration