To overcome the limitations of structural XML mark-up, graph-based data models and
graph databases, as well as event-based ontologies like CIDOC-CRM (FORTH-ICS 2018)
have been considered for the creation of digital editions. We apply the graph-based
approach to model charter regests and extend it with the CIDOC-CRM ontology, as
it allows us to integrate information from different sources into a flexible data model.
By implementing the ontology within the Neo4j graph database (Neo4j 2018) we
create a sustainable data source that allows explorative search queries and finally, the
integration of the database in various technical systems. Our use case are the charters
from the St. Katharinenspital, a former medieval hospital in Regensburg, Germany.
By analysing charter abstracts with natural language processing (NLP) methods and
using additional data sources related to the charters, we generate additional metadata.
The extracted information allows the modelling of cross-document interdependencies of
charter regests and their related entities. Building upon this, we develop an exploratory
web application that allows to investigate a graph-based digital edition. Thereby, each
entity is displayed in its unique context, i.e., it is shown together with its related
entities (next neighbours) in the graph. We use this to enhance the result lists of a
full-text search, and to generate entity-specific detail pages.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92578 |
| Date | 11 July 2024 |
| Creators | Sippl, Colin, Burghardt, Manuel, Wolff, Christian |
| Publisher | BoD |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:bookPart, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 978-3-7543-4369-2 |
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