Skip Navigation


Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access originally published online on September 12, 2008
Literary and Linguistic Computing 2008 23(3):311-325; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn018
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
23/3/311    most recent
fqn018v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ciula, A.
Right arrow Articles by Vieira, J. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ALLC and ACH. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Expressing complex associations in medieval historical documents: the Henry III Fine Rolls Project

Arianna Ciula, Paul Spence and José Miguel Vieira

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, London, UK

Correspondence: Arianna Ciula, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's; College London, 2nd Floor, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL, UK. E-mail: arianna.ciula{at}kcl.ac.uk

  Abstract

This article focuses on the use of technologies traditionally associated with knowledge representation to express complex associations between entities in historical texts that have been marked up in XML, according to the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. In particular, we describe our exploration of the potential role of an ontology in facilitating the interpretation of implicit and hidden associations in the sources of interest, examining its use, and limits in a digital humanities project in connection with editing tools and delivery issues. We demonstrate our findings based on the Henry III Fine Rolls project, where an ontology—built using the RDF (Resource Description Framework)/OWL (Web Ontology Language) technologies—is being developed to make explicit information about person, place, and subject entities marked up as instances in the core texts themselves. For any historian, there is a natural tension between primary sources (as documentary records) and the analysis that produces a context for interpretation. We will argue that the combination of core mark-up (encoded in TEI) and an ontology (in RDF/OWL) provides a powerful model for representing the complexity of this tension and facilitates the necessarily dynamic process of scholarly interpretation.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Lit Linguist ComputingHome page
A. Ciula and T. Lopez
Reflecting on a dual publication: Henry III Fine Rolls print and web
Lit Linguist Computing, June 1, 2009; 24(2): 129 - 141.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.