TOBIAS: Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS

本项目申请在影响和参与计划的后续资助下，在10周年重点通知下获得资助。英国和爱尔兰历史书目（BBIH）-以前的皇家历史学会书目-在2007年根据旧计划[APN 15510]作为资源增强奖获得资助。项目有五个目标，包括“通过向OAIster等开放档案倡议收集者和在线搜索引擎提供数据，扩大数据的获取渠道”。在这八年中，暴露和丰富数据的可能性变得更加强大和普遍。这在2007年是根本不可能的，现在是时候利用这些发展，将支撑书目综合编目系统的详细词库作为链接数据公开，使其他历史项目受益，并且随着语义网的发展，以具有变革潜力的方式整合历史资源：此外，只有在本项目提供详细的分类系统的情况下，才有可能建立这种联系。将在简单知识组织系统SKOS中对术语词库进行标记（http：//www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/），这是标记术语词库的最佳选择。它使用简单，非常适合历史项目使用，同时与Web本体语言OWL集成良好（两者可以使用OWL的注释属性进行链接）。历史研究所（IHR）建议将皇家历史学会的英国和爱尔兰历史主题分类作为Web本体发布，这是其主题领域的首要词库，包含8，800个术语。这将为所有希望公开其数据并使用RDF（资源描述框架）将其链接到其他项目的英国和爱尔兰历史项目提供全面的标准资源。作为一个范例，《国际卫生条例》将用RHS词库术语标记其广泛使用的历史在线数据（www.history.ac.uk/history-online/），作为该过程及其价值的演示，以及人类可读的词库版本，以便希望使用历史本体的项目或学者能够迅速看到词库可以提供的范围和细节。对学者或不熟悉SKOS的人的其他帮助将是在线教程，包括工作示例。《国际卫生条例》将在项目结束时举办一个讲习班，利用其与当地历史和家族史界的广泛联系，向学术界内外展示该项目的好处。为了进一步证明该词库的适用性，Bodleian图书馆的约翰约翰逊收集的印刷蜉蝣，与ProQuest一起制作，将使用网络本体标记，证明其在增强一个不同的和大量的图像为基础的collection.The书目第一次产生其主题分类在20世纪90年代末。该词库借鉴了早期印刷卷的分类方法，并与历史专业人士协商制定。从那以后，它一直在修改和完善。它现在包含8，800个术语。叙词表是已知的，至少在大纲，所有用户的书目（主题树的相关部分显示与每一个记录），这实际上意味着所有的历史学家的英国和爱尔兰历史：虽然BBIH自2010年以来一直是一个订阅服务，几乎所有的英国高等教育机构与历史部门订阅。它也被爱尔兰历史书目，爱尔兰历史在线（http：//www.irishhistoryonline.ie/）使用。它已被一家商业公司，泰勒和弗朗西斯，用来标记其在线英语历史文献系列http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com/。

This project applies for funding under the follow-on funding for impact and engagement scheme, under the 10th anniversary highlight notice. The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) - formerly the Royal Historical Society Bibliography - was funded under the old scheme [APN15510] in 2007 as a resource enhancement award. There were five project objectives, including "to widen access to the data by exposing it to OAI (Open Archives Initiative) harvesters, such as OAIster, and to online search engines". In the intervening eight years the possibilities for exposing and enriching data have become vastly more powerful and pervasive. This was simply not possible in 2007 and the time is now right to take advantage of these developments, to expose as linked data the detailed thesaurus which underpins the Bibliography's comprehensive cataloguing system, allowing other historical projects to benefit, and, as the semantic web develops, to integrate historical resources in a way which has transformative potential: such linkage, is moreover, only possible with a detailed classification system this project will provide. The thesaurus will be marked up in SKOS, the Simple Knowledge Organization System (http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/), which is the best choice for marking up a thesaurus. It is simple to use, making it ideal for use by historical projects, while integrating well with the Web Ontology Language OWL (the two can be linked using OWL's annotation properties).The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) proposes to publish as a web ontology the Royal Historical Society's subject classification for British and Irish History - the premier thesaurus in its subject area, comprising 8,800 terms. This will provide a comprehensive, standard resource for all British and Irish history projects wishing to expose their data and link it to other projects using RDF (Resource Description Framework). As an exemplar, the IHR will mark up its own extensively used History Online data (www.history.ac.uk/history-online/) with the RHS thesaurus terms, as a demonstration of the process and its value, as well as a human-readable version of the thesaurus, so that projects or scholars wishing to use a history ontology will quickly be able to see the scope and detail the thesaurus can offer. Additional aids to scholars or those unfamiliar with SKOS will be online tutorials, including worked examples. The IHR will hold a workshop at the end of the project, drawing on its extensive contacts with the local history and family history community, to demonstrate the benefits of the project to those inside and outside academia. To further demonstrate the applicability of the thesaurus, the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera, produced in conjunction with ProQuest, will be marked up using the web ontology, proving its use in enhancing a disparate and heavily image-based collection.The bibliography first produced its subject classification in the late 1990s. The thesaurus drew on the categorisation used for the earlier print volumes and was developed in consultation with the history profession. It has been revised and refined ever since. It now contains 8,800 terms. The thesaurus is known, at least in outline, to all users of the bibliography (the relevant parts of the subject tree are displayed with every record), which effectively means all historians of British and Irish History: although BBIH has been a subscription service since 2010, practically all UK Higher Education institutions with history departments subscribe. It is also used by the bibliography of Irish history, Irish History Online (http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/). It has been used by a commercial company, Taylor & Francis, to mark up its online English Historical Documents series http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com/.