Category: Notes

Notes from Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum

Breakout Groups: A Crowd Sourcing / Search v.s Browse groups B Localization of IS Standards to the humanistic discipline—networked ontologies C Groups—relationships/ biographical data D Crosswalks across time/ culture E Scholarly and reusable resources F Objects Crosswalk Breakout Group Crosswalk or merge? Merging requires deduplication. Factors that determine type and possibility of crosswalk: granularity, hierarchy, cultural- or dataset-specific features; changing…

Notes from Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum

Case Study 1: Itinera: (Alison and Drew) Drew Armstrong: Itinera arose because of limitations in print sources for research, teaching, extensibility. Computers are bad about dealing with images, so we use metadata. Intended to represent networks of people, objects, places, etc. to represent networks of people and artifacts and how they move, tied in to images on site. Priority on…

Notes from Ashleigh Faith

ISO 25964 part 1- 2011 and ISO 25964 Part 2 – 2013 are very well rounded standards on construction, maintenance, and validation of terminologies with special attention paid to interoperability. Both are difficult to get through Pitt but Judy Brink got me a copy of both. Since its copyright is licensed to Pitt I could share them with you if…

Notes from Aisling Quigley and Jen Donnelly

The Network Ontologies workshop was an ideal venue for determining the commonalities and differences among and between a range of digital projects incorporating networks, and for exploring complex questions raised throughout this process. As reiterated by the workshop’s organizers, Drew Armstrong, Alison Langmead, and Christopher Warren (Carnegie Mellon University), Network Ontologies strove to represent a safe intellectual space enriched by…