Ontology-based data integration in EPNet: production and distribution of food during the Roman Empire

Semantic technologies are rapidly changing the historical research. Over the last decades, an immense amount of new quantifiable data have been accumulated, and made available in interchangeable formats, in social sciences and humanities, opening up new possibilities for solving old questions and po...

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Main Authors: Calvanese, Diego (Author) , Liuzzo, Pietro Maria (Author) , Mosca, Alessandro (Author) , Remesal, José (Author) , Rezk, Martin (Author) , Rull, Guillem (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 23 February 2016
In: Engineering applications of artificial intelligence
Year: 2016, Volume: 51, Pages: 212-229
ISSN:0952-1976
DOI:10.1016/j.engappai.2016.01.005
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2016.01.005
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197616000099
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Author Notes:Diego Calvanese, Pietro Liuzzo, Alessandro Mosca, José Remesal, Martin Rezk, Guillem Rull
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Summary:Semantic technologies are rapidly changing the historical research. Over the last decades, an immense amount of new quantifiable data have been accumulated, and made available in interchangeable formats, in social sciences and humanities, opening up new possibilities for solving old questions and posing new ones. This paper introduces a framework that eases the access of scholars to historical and cultural data about food production and commercial trade system during the Roman Empire, distributed across different data sources. The proposed approach relies on the Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) paradigm, where the different datasets are virtually integrated by a conceptual layer (an ontology) that provides to the user a clear point of access and a unified and unambiguous conceptual view.
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ISSN:0952-1976
DOI:10.1016/j.engappai.2016.01.005