TOBIAS: Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS

本项目根据十周年重点通知，申请后续影响和参与资金计划下的供资。英国和爱尔兰历史书目(BBIH)--前身是皇家历史学会书目--是根据旧计划[APN15510]于2007年作为资源增强奖而资助的。有五个项目目标，包括“通过向开放档案倡议(OAI)收割机(如OAIster)和在线搜索引擎提供数据，扩大对数据的获取”。在其间的八年里，曝光和丰富数据的可能性变得更加强大和普遍。这在2007年是不可能的，现在正是利用这些发展的适当时机，将支撑书目全面编目系统的详细同义词作为关联数据公布，使其他历史项目受益，并随着语义网的发展，以具有变革潜力的方式整合历史资源：此外，只有通过该项目将提供的详细分类系统，才有可能实现这种联系。词库将在SKOS中进行标记，简单知识组织系统(http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/)，)是标记词库的最佳选择。它使用简单，非常适合历史项目使用，同时与Web Ontology语言OWL(两者可以使用OWL的注释属性进行链接)很好地集成在一起。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网络本体发布--其主题领域的首要同义词词典，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。作为范例，《国际卫生条例》将用RHS同义词词库标注其广泛使用的历史在线数据(www.history.ac.uk/History-online/)，以展示这一过程及其价值，以及词库的人类可读版本，以便希望使用历史本体论的项目或学者能够迅速看到词库所能提供的范围和细节。对学者或那些不熟悉SKOS的人的额外帮助将是在线教程，包括工作示例。《国际卫生条例》将在项目结束时举办一次讲习班，利用其与当地历史和家族史社区的广泛联系，向学术界内外的人展示该项目的好处。为了进一步证明辞典的适用性，Bodleian图书馆与ProQuest联合制作的John Johnson印刷星历集合将使用网络本体进行标记，以证明其在加强不同的和严重基于图像的集合方面的使用。参考书目首次产生其主题分类是在20世纪90年代末。该词库借鉴了早期纸质书的分类方法，并与历史专业人士进行了磋商。自那以后，它一直在修改和完善。它现在包含8800个术语。书目的所有用户都知道词库(主题树的相关部分与每条记录一起显示)，这实际上意味着英国和爱尔兰历史的所有历史学家：尽管BBIH自2010年以来一直是一项订阅服务，但实际上所有有历史系的英国高等教育机构都是订阅的。它也被爱尔兰历史书目使用，爱尔兰历史在线(http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/).它已被商业公司泰勒&弗朗西斯用来标记其在线英语历史文献丛书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/.