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Citations and annotations in classics: old problems and new perspectives

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DH-CASE '13: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environment: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities

September 2013

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Annotations played a major role in Classics since the very beginning of the discipline. Some of the first attested examples of philological work, the so-called scholia, were in fact marginalia, namely comments written at the margins of a text. Over the centuries this kind of scholarship evolved until it became a genre on its own, the classical commentary, thus moving away from the text with the result that philologists had to devise a solution to linking together the commented and the commenting text. The solution to this problem is the system of canonical citations, a special kind of bibliographic references that are at the same time very precise and highly interoperable.

In this paper we present HuCit, an ontology that models in depth the semantics of canonical citations. We discuss how it can be used to a) support the automatic extraction of canonical citations from texts and b) to publish them in machine-readable format on the Semantic Web. Finally, we describe how HuCit's machine-generated citation data can also be expressed as annotations by using the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) ontology, to the aim of increasing reuse and semantic interoperability.

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Reviewer: Prateek Jain

Citations play an important role in pointing a reader to a relevant text for further analysis and investigation. The ontological modeling presented in this work is an interesting contribution to (1) modeling the citations and (2) identifying the text being talked about using canonical citations. A canonical citation is a special kind of bibliographic citation used to refer to sections of classical literature. It is highly precise and concise, and expected to be interoperable to support different editions of the text. Canonical citations can be seamlessly modeled using ontologies, as they support and alleviate heterogeneity due to different editions and translations of the text. There are a number of good features about the work. In particular, the authors present a fair amount of domain analysis, which will allow readers to understand the requirements of this domain. This is complemented with a good overview of the state of the art in the use of ontologies for representing citations. Furthermore, the work identifies what is hindering interoperability and the drawbacks of the existing approaches. The authors present their own solution for the domain that alleviates some of the challenges and reuses ontological concepts from other solutions. While there are number of positives, the work does fall short of giving technical details related to the tools and language used for modeling. It also does not go into a lot of details about how the authors propose using this work in a real-life setting. This paper will be a good read for those who are interested in modeling domains related to cultural studies, literature, and ontology design. It can also serve as a good reference on how to present ideas in a paper related to the modeling of a domain. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DOI:10.1145/2517978

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Philips JTabrizi N(2023)Bibliographic Reference Classification in Historiographic Documents using Supervised Machine Learning and Grammatical FeaturesProceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining10.1145/3603765.3603778(96-102)Online publication date: 10-May-2023
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Constantin APeroni SPettifer SShotton DVitali F(2016)The Document Components Ontology (DoCO)Semantic Web10.3233/SW-1501777:2(167-181)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2016
https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-150177
Skulimowski M(2014)On expanded citationsProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business10.1145/2637748.2638444(1-4)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2014
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