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| Title: | Semantiske netteknologier for formidling av humanistisk forskningsmateriale : XML Topic Maps som publiseringsverktøy for humaniora |
| Authors: | Pettersen, Trond Karl |
| Issue Date: | Feb-2006 |
| Publisher: | The University of Bergen |
| Abstract: | Semantic Web technologies for publication of humanistic research data. XML Topic
Maps as a publishing tool for the humanities.
Part 1 (chapters 1 through 3) of this master’s thesis consists of a critical discussion
of why and how to represent knowledge on the World Wide Web. It starts
by giving an overview of the historical development of networks, network technologies
and the World Wide Web. Thereafter, insight from the field of Artificial
Intelligence is discussed, focusing on the limitations of micro worlds and the separation
of algorithm and problem-domain. Knowledge drawn from AI may be seen
as converging with that of network technologies and distributed processing, giving
us a vision of a Semantic Web where sets of data are self-describing - beyond
the context of layout. We define the technologies of such a Semantic Web to be
based on four main components: unambiguous identity-criteria, classes, objects,
and relations. Hence, Semantic Web technologies and standards must be able to
convey information about ontologies, and will typically take the form of associative
‘information overlay’-technologies such as W3C’s Web Ontology Language (OWL)
and ISO’s Topic Maps.
Part 2 discusses an implementation of a Semantic Web technology. The Web
application1 developed as part of this project is used for publication of research data
from the project “Det vestnorske hellerprosjektet” at the Department of Archeology,
University of Bergen. The project’s findings will be published using XML
Topic Maps, which allows us to navigate the information structure based on the
semantics of the information model itself. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2038 |
| Appears in Collections: | Section for Humanistic Informatics (Various)
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