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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Calvanese, Diego, Liuzzo, Pietro, Mosca, Alessandro, Remesal Rodríguez, José, Rezk, Martin, Rull, Guillem
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/132988
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/132988
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Àmfores
Roma (Itàlia)
Imperi Romà, 30 aC-476 dC
Amphoras
Rome (Italy)
Roman Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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Sumario: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.