Tensions
Last week, Faith gave a great overview of some of the issues involved in describing the relationships between people. This week, I’m going to come at the problem from the other side, looking at what...
View ArticleNamed Entity Recognition and SNAP
One of the other breakout sessions of the SNAP workshop dealt with Named Entity Recognition. One can wonder whether setting up a Named Entity Recognition procedure from scratch is worth the effort for...
View ArticleSNAP at Digital Humanities 2014
The SNAP Project is proud to announce the Ontologies for Prosopography: Who’s Who? or, Who was Who? one-day workshop developed in conjunction with the People of the Founding Era project based at the...
View ArticleWhy SNAP IDs?
One question that came up during the workshop a couple of weeks ago was: if partner projects already assign their own URIs/ids to their person/name/etc. records, then why should SNAP assign its own...
View ArticleThe Old Classes vs Properties Debate (or Relationships Are Hard, Part 2)
One of the decisions that has to be made when creating an ontology is which concepts you encode as classes and which you encode as properties of those classes. One of the difficulties is that there is...
View ArticleYou Aren’t Gonna Need It
We’ve been discussing lately how to merge person records in SNAP, so that when we encounter partner projects that each have a record for the same person, SNAP can provide a useful service by combining...
View ArticleLooking Towards an API for SNAP:DRGN
During the first SNAP:DRGN workshop a breakout group was convened to discuss the potential API for the project. Rather than come up with a specific API during that session, we instead focused on...
View ArticleSNAP and VIAF
We’ve had a couple of meetings with Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Thomas Hickey, of the Scholars Contributions to VIAF group, to discuss possible collaborations, exchange of information, and mutual...
View ArticleState of the Snap-Nation
With the end of the pilot project scarily in sight it is time to review where we are and where we hope to be by the end of December. The big news is that (hopefully) the first set of SNAP identifiers...
View ArticleRecommendations for EDH person-data RDF
At the first meeting of the Open Epigraphic Data Unconference (OEDUc) in London in May 2017, one of the working groups that met in the afternoon (and claim to have completed our brief, so do not...
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