Dear All,
the below may find your interest. BTW, the
first draft of the FRBR-CRM Harmonization is expected to appear
in about a month. If someone would like to have a non-public
copy, please contact me.
Best,
Martin
Subject:
literary ontology
From:
Fiona Oliver <[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:33:41 +1300
To:
[email protected]
Hi,
I’m involved with creating an ontology to link works of literature and literary criticism in a topic map. The content that we are linking is
currently on a larger site (all marked up in TEI), which already uses a topic map to store and map relationships between the texts it has
digitised. The current topic map links simple concepts such as works, divisions of a work, authorship, publication, dates, and names of
people, places and institutions, using an ontology derived in part from the CIDOC CRM (http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/). However, we need an
entirely new set of topics and associations that are not descriptive, but interpretive, which we can apply to language objects as well as
actual things. For example, a few words or lines of text may exemplify the author's treatment of a particular concept, or show the influence
of one or more other authors, works, moods, ideas etc.
My question is, before we press on and risk re-inventing the wheel (even a small, squeaky one), does anyone know if there is already a
formalised set of entities (topics) and relationships (associations) that could be usefully used in a topic map?
Many thanks,
Fiona
Fiona Oliver
Production Editor
Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
PO Box 5364
Wellington
Dir: (04) 474 3302
Fax: (04) 495 2566
Email: [email protected]
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