Eliciting the ancient geography from a digital library of latin texts

Maurizio Lana, Timothy Tambassi

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Abstract

Geolat – Geography for Latin Literature is a research project, aimed at making accessible a digital library containing the works of Latin literature (from its origins in 240 BCE to the end of the Roman Empire in 476 CE) through a query interface of geographic/cartographic type representing the geographic knowledge expressed in the Latin texts themselves. A core activity of the project has been the development of the ontology GO!, which describes the geographical knowledge contained in the texts of the library. The ontologically annotated texts will allow for a variety of scientifically relevant uses, apart from the geo-based browsing: for example the production of digital and printed critical editions. The project is under development at Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of Università del Piemonte Orientale, and financially supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Libraries and Multimedia Archives - 14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2018, Proceedings
EditorsGiuseppe Serra, Carlo Tasso
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages191-200
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319731643
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2018 - Udine, Italy
Duration: 25 Jan 201826 Jan 2018

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume806
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference14th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityUdine
Period25/01/1826/01/18

Keywords

  • Classical latin texts
  • Digital library
  • Geography
  • OWL
  • Ontology
  • Web

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