Historical Source Evidence Brainstorming

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Preliminary Questions[edit]

  • How to represent the source data - triples? xml document?
  • How to represent the scholar's interpretation of the source?
    • a CONSTRUCT query?
    • a GRDDL transformation?
    • some other kind of code?
    • some kind of declarative data-based recording of the interpretation/rules, which is interpreted by some specific software?
  • How to represent the results of the interpretation?
    • Reification?


A first draft of a vocabulary for evidence was created and published here: http://vocab.org/evidence/terms.rdf

Instance data: http://vocab.org/evidence/data.rdf

A minor edit is http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Vocab/evidence.rdf , diagrammed as http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Vocab/view.xq?rdf=http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmlwiki/Vocab/evidence.rdf