Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA)

对帐户的语义丰富数字版本 (MEDEA) 进行建模

• 批准号: 273653513
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Mark Spoerer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/273653513?language=en
• 关键词: Modeling; semantically; Enriched; Digital; Edition

Between May 2015 and April 2016, Wheaton College (Mass.) and the University of Regensburg will bring together economic historians, scholarly editors, and technical experts to discuss and test emerging methods for semantic markup of account books. The project directors hope that the proposed activities will mark the beginning of a long term collaboration that will extend for at least the next five years. The main activities proposed for initiating the bilateral project focused on Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA) include three stages:- At a meeting to be held at the University of Regensburg in early summer 2015, the Project Directors will present the models of semantic markup of accounts that they have been exploring for discussion, critique, and suggestions from the invited experts.- After this meeting, participants will produce examples that may be used as models for further testing and development of best practices for transcription, markup, and analysis of accounting records.- At a second meeting, to be held at Wheaton College in March 2016, principals will present the results of this testing and consult with the assembled experts regarding next steps for expanding the communities of practice employing these models for historical financial records.Looking to the potential of developing broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts, the Project Directors have planned this series of activities to introduce pragmatic concerns early in the process so as to avoid introducing problems that might result from solely theoretical discussions. The examples to be produced during the second stage of activities will be chosen to demonstrate the wide range of documents that are included in the general category of accounts and to begin to suggest the breadth and depth of information to be found in such sources.A significant portion of the historical record for which cost-effective digitization models have yet to be developed, financial records of various sorts have been produced by most human communities. Account books have long been used as primary sources for economic and social history since they allow scholars to explore the development of economic behavior on both a macro- and microstructural level. Information derived from account books can help to answer questions about such matters as the distribution of wealth and the role of ¿the poor¿ in local, regional, and global communities. Account books also supply data at the most granular level, as they are often the only sources available for historical information about such historically significant individuals and activities as artisans and their work. Thus, the MEDEA project¿s larger goals of contributing to the development of broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts have the potential to transform humanities scholarship in a significant range of fields.

2015年5月至2016年4月期间，惠顿学院（马萨诸塞州）和雷根斯堡大学将汇集经济历史学家、学术编辑和技术专家，讨论和测试新出现的会计账簿语义标记方法。项目负责人希望，拟议的活动将标志着一项长期合作的开始，这种合作将至少持续5年。启动双边项目的主要活动包括三个阶段：-在2015年初夏在雷根斯堡大学举行的会议上，项目主管将展示他们一直在探索的账户语义标记模型，供受邀专家讨论、批评和建议。-会议结束后，与会者将提供示例，作为进一步测试和开发会计记录转录、标记和分析最佳实践的模型。在2016年3月于惠顿学院举行的第二次会议上，校长们将展示这次测试的结果，并与与会专家就下一步如何扩大使用这些历史财务记录模型的实践社区进行磋商。考虑到为制作语义丰富的数字版账目制定广泛标准的潜力，项目主任计划了这一系列活动，以便在过程的早期引入实际问题，以避免引入可能仅由理论讨论产生的问题。将选择在第二阶段活动期间产生的例子，以显示一般帐户类别中所包括的广泛文件，并开始表明在这些来源中可以找到的资料的广度和深度。在成本效益高的数字化模式尚未开发的历史记录中，有很大一部分是由大多数人类社区产生的各种财务记录。长期以来，账簿一直被用作经济和社会历史的主要来源，因为它们允许学者在宏观和微观结构层面上探索经济行为的发展。从账簿中获得的信息有助于回答有关财富分配和“穷人”在地方、区域和全球社区中的作用等问题。账簿还提供最细粒度的数据，因为它们通常是历史上重要的个人和活动（如工匠及其工作）的历史信息的唯一来源。因此，MEDEA项目的更大目标是促进制定广泛的标准，以生产语义丰富的数字版本的账户，这有可能在很大范围内改变人文学科的学术。