Concept

Shall we change these names?

title -> dc:title

isMadeBy -> dc:creator

isPublishedBy -> dc:publisher

UNKNOWN-is-Author -> None

timeOfPublication -> dc:date

generalNote -> dc:description

placeOfPublication -> dc:location

Medium -> dc:format

I will add if I found more...

Use existing ontology: Dublin Core

See: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

We can use DC (Dublin Core) for class/property names. As an example, see /cvs/bin/mockup/100.rdf (on your CVS working copy).

For person, maybe we can use the BIO schema:

One of the questions arises in bringing historical resources into a semantic web is:

What kind of information would be presented to users and how to get the information?

There are two kinds of information that would be managed:

• Bibliographical information; this information is ready in MARC8 format and have been converted into RDF format.
  
• Terminological and definitional information; this information should be extracted automatically from the fulltext of the Evans documents.

One of the motivation for the semantic web in the digital library can be found is a framework for DL research:

A Framework for Digital Library Research: Broadening the Vision
Dagobert Soergel
University of Maryland

...Theme 3. Digital libraries need semantic structure.

To convey meaning to users, especially students, to support search and retrieval, to provide knowledge-based support in the user interface, and to support agents that perform work for the user, a DL needs semantic structure, an ontology both in the broad sense of a conceptual schema for a domain (which includes metadata standards) and in the more narrow sense of a classification of subjects and values of other entity types. This is a recurring, if not sufficiently heeded, theme in literature, with emphasis on the need for harmonization (and, to the extent feasible, standardization) across disciplines, languages, cultures, and time (for historical materials). Semantic structures are expensive to create, so reuse, re-purposing, and adaptation of existing schemes is important, along with computer-assisted methods for aligning different schemes; automatic discovery of terms, concepts, definitions, and relationships from text and from user interactions; and collaborative development and maintenance of ontologies. (For a general reference and an example, see [10].) Semantic structure is an area of prime importance; it needs its own EU-NSF Working Group.

This is about the project. Will be written later.