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An Ontological View of Canonical Citations
Matteo Romanello1 Michele Pasin1
1Department of Digital HumanitiesKing’s College London
Digital Humanities conference 2011Stanford, California
21 June 2011
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Project Context
PhD at the DDH, KCLdiscussion started during an internal Knowledge RepresentationseminarHuCit: ontology for the citations in the Humanitiespart of a domain ontology for Classicsapplication: knowledge base to support the automatic extraction ofcitations from text
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Related Work
Ontology EngineeringCiTO, Citation Typing OntologySWAN Ecosystem, esp. Scientific Discourse OntologyOpenCyc
Canonical CitationsCanonical Text Services (CTS), Harvard Univ.Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB), Cornell Univ.
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Canonical Citations
Motivation
precision of references to texts
persistency of citations
interoperability of citations across editions
Characteristics
are not tight to a specific edition of a text (loosely coupled)
canonical: result of an agreement within a specific community of practice
Examples
Hom. Il. 1.1
Athen. Deipn, X 412a
Arist. Poetics 1451a35-b6
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Citing Aristotle
Bekker numbersI derived from his edition (1831-1870) of Aristotle’s worksI used by all scholarly editions
citation structure:I 1451a35I page / column / lineI / [0-9]{4}[a-z]{1}[0-9]+ /
alternative citation structure:I eg: VIII 4 - IX 3I medieval systemI book / chapter / sentence
Similar systems:I Stephanus page (Plutarch)I Casaubon page (Athenaeus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekker_numbers
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Citations in a print environment
Butcher’s edition (1922) p. 34 and Bekker’s edition (1831) p. 184
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FRBR in a nutshell
FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic RecordsWork: the abstract content of a Work (substance is concepts)Expression: the text of a Work (substance is signs)Manifestation: the physical carrier of an Expression
ExampleWork: The abstract content of Homer’s IliadExpression: The text of Iliad in the Italian translation by the poetVincenzo Monti (XIX century)Manifestation: A copy of V. Monti, Iliad, Milano : Mondadori, 1995[isbn: 8804394846]
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HuCit’s Overview
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A Canonical Citation (macro level)
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Citation Styles
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Canonical Citation as resolvable pointer
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Citation Scheme and Textual Structure
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Textual Structure and Expressions
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Wrap up
Contributiona conceptual model of how canonical citations worka more abstract / application-independent model to encodesemantics of canon. citationsinteroperability with other standards/protocols for canonicalcitations (CTS, CWKB)small ontology but mapped to other ontologies (CIDOC-CRM andFRBRoo)
Ontology populationcitations extracted from texts (JSTOR, APh)textual structures to be extracted from TEI encoded texts(Perseus)reasoning over the KB to support automatic extraction
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