Best Practice: Ontology Design for Supporting Digital Humanities on Historical Personages: The Taiwan Biographical Database (TBDB) Case

Title: Ontology Design for Supporting Digital Humanities on Historical Personages: The Taiwan Biographical Database (TBDB) Case
Moderated by: Ying-Hsang Liu
Date: 2021-10-07 07:00
Slides: slides.pdf
Recording: Watch on YouTube

Speaking:


	Hao-Ren Ke
Hao-Ren Ke
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Hao-Ren Ke received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree, both in Computer and Information Science. He is a professor of Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies and the University Librarian at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). He is the President of Interlibrary Cooperation Association (ILCA) in Taiwan. Hao-Ren Ke devotes himself to helping Taiwan academic libraries move toward digital libraries. He built Taiwan mirror sites for Elsevier, CSA, SCI/SSCI, and Ei Compendex in late 1990s. He developed the Interlibrary Loan Networking System for Taiwan libraries. He also plays an important technical role in the operation of the biggest Taiwan academic library consortium– CONCERT (CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan). Hao-Ren Ke participated in TELDAP (Taiwan E-Learning and Digital Archived Program) for nearly ten years. He established several digital archives for Taiwan artists. His main research interests include digital humanities, linked data, and library management.




	Shun-Hong Sie
Shun-Hong Sie
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Shun-hong Sie is a system librarian of National Taiwan Normal University Library. He received his Ph. D. in Library and information science at Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and Master degree at Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University. He focuses on building digital archive systems, and developing services that help NTNU Library move toward smart library. His main research interests include digital humanities, information retrieval, digital archives system development.




	Su-Bing Chang
Su-Bing Chang
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Su-Bing Chang is the professor and chair of Graduate Institute of Taiwan History, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). Her research expertise covers History of Taiwan, Digital Humanities, Regional History, Local Gazetteers, Environmental History. She is working on a project of Digital Humanities, which uses face detection to assist the exploration of social relationship in historical photographs.

Abstract:

The Taiwan Biographical Database (TBDB) assembles biographical information of historical personages in Taiwan. It supports relational database operations, full-text search, social network analysis, and geographic information system functions. The main purpose of TBDB is to offer a digital-humanities-oriented system that inspires historians to explore Taiwan history. In order to describe the entities in TBDB, improve the reuse of domain knowledge in Taiwan modern history, and facilitate the data exchange and system interoperability between Taiwan-history-related systems through linked open data, an ontology is developed in TBDB. This presentation briefly reports the development of TBDB, and focuses on the design process of this ontology that integrates several widespread ontologies and metadata such as CIDOC CRM, Schema.org, and Dublin Core.