Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
TEI and neighbouring standards:CIDOC-CRM
Øyvind Eide
Universität Passau
http://www.oeide.no/
(with thanks to Christian-Emil Ore and the rest of the CIDOC-CRM SIG)
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
Interconnected cultural heritage
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
TEI XML• Physical and logical structure• Semantic content
RDF/OWL ontology• Network of associations• Additional statements and
interpretative layers
<rs key="abjuration" type="subject">on the day he abjured the kingdom<persName key="rumberue_de_thomas">Thomas de <placeNamekey="rumberue">Rumberue</placeName></persName></rs>
<persName key="ashford_de_william">William de<placeName key="ashford1">Ashford</placeName></persName>
Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Ciula, Viera: “Complementing and extending TEI documents
with an ontology”. TEI Members Meeting 2008)
Text and ontology
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Ontology/ies
• What is ontology?
– The study of being• What are ontologies?
– Shared conceptualisations expressed in formal languages
• TEI and ontologies
– TEI can express ontological information
– TEI documents are based on an ontology of the encoded text
– TEI as a whole is not one ontology
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
Connecting TEI to ontologies
• P4: names could be connected to external resources
• P4: feature structures
• P5: names can be connected as in P4
• P5: names can be connected via a representation of the named object, typically in the header
• Where is the link (to an external ontology) in the markup of the text?
• Where does it point
– which document?
– which formalism?
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Turn around: CIDOC-CRM to TEI
• A TEI document, or a fragment thereof, can be modelled as a CIDOC-CRM conceptual object
• This can be used to explicitly document elements of the CIDOC-CRM model
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
TEI as part of CIDOC-CRM
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Beyond TEI
A fragment of a imaginary archaeological excavation report:
“The excavation in Wasteland in 2005 was performed by Dr. Diggey. He had the misfortune of breaking the
beautiful sword (C50435) into 30 pieces.”
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
<TEI><teiHeader>…</teiHeader><text>…<p xml:id="p1"> <rs xml:id="e1">The excavation in<name type="place" xml:id="n1">Wasteland </name> in <date xml:id="d1">2005</date></rs> was performed by <name type="person" xml:id="n2">Dr. Diggey </name>. He had the misfortune of <rs xml:id="e2"> breaking <rs xml:id="o1">the beautiful sword <rs xml:id=“o_id1”>(C50435)</rs></rs> into 30 pieces</rs>.</p>…</text></TEI>
Actor: Dr. Diggey Relation: performed Event: E1 Type excavation Place: Wastland Time- span 2005
Actor: Dr. Diggey Relation: performed Event: E2 Type: Modification Descr: Breaking the sword into 30 pieces Relation: part of E1 Relation: in presence of Object: Sword Relation: identified by Identifier: C50435
Information extraction
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participate in
E39 Actors(persons, inst.)
E55 Types
E28 Conceptual Objects
E18 Physical Things
E2 Temporal Entities(Events)
E41
Ap
pel
lati
ons
refer to / refine
refe
r to
/ i d
ent i f
ie
have location
within
E53 PlacesE52 Time-Spans
at
affect or refer to
CIDOC-CRM
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A long chinese pipe of bone. Donated 12th May 1853 by Kildal-Lund.
Object(man made): A pipeObject attributes
material: boneshape: long
Relation: was producedEvent: Production
Place: China
Event: Donated Time-span: 12th May 1853
Relation: by Actor: Kildal-Lund.
Example from museum catalogue
Digital Humanities Dr. Øyvind Eide
participate in
E21 Kildal-LundE22 A pipe
E12 Production eventE8 Donation
affect or / refer to
location
inwithinE53 Places
E52 Time-Spans
Object(man made): A pipeObject attributes
material: boneshape: long
Relation: was producedEvent: Production
Place: China
Event: Donated Time-span: 12th May 1853
Relation: by Actor: Kildal-Lund.
E22 Man Made object
E12 Production eventE2 Temporal entity
Was produced
E53 China
E52 12th May 1853
E39 Actors
by
Mapping to CRM
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E31 Document
E21 Person (actor)
E82 Actor appellaton
”Dr. Diggey”
E7 Activity
E52 Time span
E50 Date
”2005”
E55 Type
”Archaeological report”
P2 has type
P1 is identified by
E11 Modification
”Breaking of the sword”
P9 forms part of
P14 carried out by
E22 Man–Made object
“Sword”
P12 was present at
P70 documents
P4 has time-span
E55 Type
”Archaeological excavation”
E53 Place
E44 Place appellaton
”Wasteland”
P7 took place at
E82 Object identifier
” C50435”
P2 has type
P1 is identified by P78 is identified byP87 is identified by
The content of the text in CIDOC-CRM
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