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eScience Conference 2009, Oxford
Topic Maps in the eHumanitiesDr. Lutz Maicher1 (presenter)
Co-Authors of the paper are: Khalil Ahmed2, Alida Isolani3, Aki Kivelä4, Sam Oh5, Antony Pitts6, Salvatore Vassallo7
1Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig, Germany2networked planet, Mill Street, Oxford, UK
3Signum - Scuola Normale Superiore, Via della Faggiola n. 19, 56126 Pisa, Italy4Grip Studios Interactive Oy, Kristianinkatu 15, 00170 Helsinki, Finland
5Sungkyunkwan University LIS, Faculty Hall 40314, Seoul, Korea6musicDNA & Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
7University of Pavia, P.za del Lino 2, Pavia, Italy
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What is Topic Maps? Subject-centric models!
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The real world
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Subject-centric models of the real world
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What can Topic Maps be used for?
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Topic Maps is an integration technology
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Topic Maps is a portal technology
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Topic Maps makes information subject-centric usable
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The building blocks of Topic Maps
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The data model of Topic Maps (topics)
Nikolaikirchevariant
St. Nicholas Church
St. Nikolai
name
English
scope
1165occurrence
www.nikolaikirche-leipzig.de/
occurrence
foundation
type
website
type
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The data model of Topic Maps (associations)
St. Nikolai Leipzig
association
container-containee
ass. rolerole player
containercontainee
role type
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Integration model of Topic Maps
St. Nikolai
The identity of a topic is defined by a set of Subject Identifiers …
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipziger_Nikolaikirche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas%27_Church%2C_Leipzig
http://www.nikolaikirche-leipzig.de/
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Integration model of Topic Maps
St. Nikolai
… whenever two topics in one topic map use the same subject identifier, they will be merged.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipziger_Nikolaikirche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas%27_Church%2C_Leipzig
http://www.nikolaikirche-leipzig.de/
Saint-Nicolas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas%27_Church%2C_Leipzig
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Integration model of Topic Maps• Merging of Topics: a new topic replaces the old ones and provides
all information of them as unified access hub • all subject identifiers• all names• all occurrences• all association roles, the topic is playing in
St. Nikolaihttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipziger_Nikolaikirche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas%27_Church%2C_Leipzig
http://www.nikolaikirche-leipzig.de/
Saint-Nicolasand all Occurrences and Roles Played from both Topics …
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What are Topic Maps (ISO 13250)?• Topic Maps are highly-networked data sources
• one topic for each subject• relationships of subjects are associations between topics• subject-centric modelling paradigm
• Topic Maps have a human-centric data model• vocabulary for documenting information fits human cognition• network resembles human cognition
• Topic Maps have an integration model• whenever two topics represent the same subject, they have to be merged• always one information access hub for each subject
• Topic Maps is an international industry standard (ISO 13250)
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How Topic Maps drive Semantic PortalsCase: Musica migrans
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The domain of Musica migrans (Lutz Maicher, Leipzig)
Personhas names
with a lot of different spellings
primary nationality of a person
Nationalitysecondary nationality of a personDate
birthday of a person
day of death of a person
Placebirthplace of a person
place of death of a person
Confessionconfessions of a person
Professionmain profession of a person
secondary profession of a person
Referencearchive encyclopaedia
further literature
has educational development
start and end of educational phase
place of educational phase
goal of educational phase
has professional development
start and end of a job
place of a job
profession in a job
has concerts
date of a concert
place of a concert
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])List page for persons in Musica migrans
http://www.musicamigrans.de
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Individual page (general) for person in Musica migrans
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Individual page (professional carreer) for person in Musica migrans
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Individual page (working places) for places in Musica migrans
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Individual page for profession in Musica migrans
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Professional carreer as map for a person in Musica migrans
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities - eScience 2009 Conference - Oxford - Dr. Lutz Maicher ([email protected])Individual page (as pdf dossier) for person in Musica migrans
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Further Topic Maps projects in the eHumanities
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http://www.cedeca.it
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CeDECA (Salvatore Vassallo, Pavia)
• Topic Maps portal for census of cultural patrinomy in the province of Pavia, Italy– Books, Articles, pictures, music, persons, architectural heritage,
archives, immaterial heritage, etc.
– Organised as virtual museum with rooms of places, museum, folklore, history, memories and books
– Additional two transversal rooms: agents and multimedia items
– Current volume: 1.600 Topics and 4.000 associations• Main Challenge:
– Impossibility to define a priori the data model (fluid ontology)
– Various Names of individuals
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RAMline (Anthony Pitts, London; Khalil Ahmed, Oxford)
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RAMline (Anthony Pitts, London; Khalil Ahmed, Oxford)
• Part of long time project at Royal Academy of Music – Goal: provdie a model for connection between people, places and
musical work
– Provide pupil a tool to chart own musicial development and link it to a wider context of pathways and influences
• RAMLine is a Topic Maps application built on top of Microsoft Sharepoint
• RAMLine launched first spinn-off – musicGPS is an iPhone application
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RAMline (Antony Pitts, London; Khalil Ahmed, Oxford)
creating capturing connecting communicating
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Pansori Retrieval System (Sam Oh, Seoul)
• Topic Maps based knoweldge base about the Korean folk music Pansori– People and Pansori are first class
objetcs• User study has been shown
– users locate information with fewer browsing in less time
– provides conceptual understanding of a domain
– users performed well in complex tasks
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http://www.signum.sns.it
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Text and Semantic (Alida Isolani, Pisa)
• System for support of semantic research by providing aids for reading and interpretation of philosophical texts– Use Case example: Giordano Bruno‘s „De gli eroici furori“
– Users can navigate seperately the work and it‘s various interpretations
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Collection of Finnish National Gallery (Aki Kivelä, Helsinki)
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http://collection.fng.fi/
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Collection of Finnish National Gallery (Aki Kivelä, Helsinki)
• Virtual Museum (as Topic Maps portal) which presents all artworks from the Finnish National Gallery– Volume: 33.000 artworks from 3.600 artists (which is 100.000 topics
and 500.000 associations)• Based on three data packages (provided as Topic Maps)
– FNG‘s information system Muusa provides the most artwork information, including artist related
– Iconclass vocabulary used to annotate artwork from the Museum for Contemporary Art Kiasma
• And other ad hoc vocabularies from FNG museums
– Curated texts from exhibitions
– (GUI) texts
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Summary
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Topic Maps in the eHumanities
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Identity and Identification - our main challenge • In nearly all applications in the humanities we store
networked information about– Persons
– (historical ) Places
– Events
– Cultural Objects
• To unleash the power of global interconnection of data we need:– Normalized Identification of Individuals
– Standardized Ontologies for the eHumanitites domains
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ImprintThis talk was provided by the Topic Maps Lab
… it‘s a research group dedicated to Topic Maps technologies.
• Located at the University of Leipzig, Germany– Chair of the Topic Maps Labs: Dr. Lutz Maicher
Contact: [email protected] / 341 / 97 32303
• Funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry for Research and Educati on)
• Portal: http://www.topicmapslab.de
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