Inference and Linking on the Humanist’s Semantic Web
Date
2014-12-17
Authors
Simpson, John Edward
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Scholarly and Research Communication
Abstract
The Semantic Web promises that the pools of semantic data it interweaves together will enable people to find information that they could not otherwise find by revealing knowledge not explicitly visible in the distributed source data. In order for this promise to be fulfilled within the humanities, the Semantic Web data being created must have certain features, but what are they? This article provides some background on Semantic Web inferencing and then argues that there are three things that humanists can do to prepare their data to participant in this sort of inference generation: add more data, reciprocate links across repositories, and add metadata specifically to support inferencing.
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Keywords
Semantic Web, Inferencing, Reasoning, Humanities
Citation
Simpson, J. E. (2014). Inference and Linking on the Humanist’s Semantic Web. Scholarly Research and Communication, 5(4): 0401182, 10 pp.