What is linked historical data?

Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra

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Abstract

Datasets that represent historical sources are relative newcomers in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. Following the standard LOD practices for publishing historical sources raises several questions: how can we distinguish between RDF graphs of primary and secondary sources? Should we treat archived and online RDF graphs differently in historical research? How do we deal with change and immutability of a triplified History? To answer these fundamental questions, we model historical primary and secondary sources using the OntoClean metaproperties and the theories of perdurance and endurance. We then use this model to give a definition of Linked Historical Data. We advocate a set of publishing practices for Linked Historical Data that preserve the ontological properties of historical sources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 19th International Conference, EKAW 2014, Proceedings
EditorsKrzysztof Janowicz, Stefan Schlobach, Patrick Lambrix, Eero Hyvönen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages282-287
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783319137032
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014 - Linköping, Sweden
Duration: Nov 24 2014Nov 28 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8876
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014
Country/TerritorySweden
CityLinköping
Period11/24/1411/28/14

Keywords

  • Historical Data
  • Linked Data
  • Semantic Web

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