A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative
This article presents the rationale and the proposal of a preliminary architecture of a formal ontology of the Text Encoding Initiative markup language. The reasons to have a formal and machine-readable semantics for TEI are manifold. In the first place, it would have a number of pragmatic and techn...
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| description | This article presents the rationale and the proposal of a preliminary architecture of a formal ontology of the Text Encoding Initiative markup language. The reasons to have a formal and machine-readable semantics for TEI are manifold. In the first place, it would have a number of pragmatic and technical benefits, like better support for semantic interoperability in text encoding practices, easier cross-corpora query processing, seamless integration with Linked Open Data ecosystem. In second place, it would give a formalized account of the quasi-formal notion of the TEI abstract model, fostering the consistency and soundness of the TEI model. Given the complexity of the TEI encoding schema, such an ontology must necessarily have a very complex architecture, and its thorough definition will be a time consuming intellectual activity: in a first stage, we propose to limit its scope to a well-defined subdomain of the TEI, and to build it adopting pre-existing meta-ontology like EARMARK. The final part of the article gives some preliminary details of this design |
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| spelling | doaj.art-036381f91cc547a49478d10ad5f6da9e2022-12-21T18:18:18ZengUniversity of BolognaUmanistica Digitale2532-88162018-11-012310.6092/issn.2532-8816/81747529A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding InitiativeFabio Ciotti0Università di Roma Tor VergataThis article presents the rationale and the proposal of a preliminary architecture of a formal ontology of the Text Encoding Initiative markup language. The reasons to have a formal and machine-readable semantics for TEI are manifold. In the first place, it would have a number of pragmatic and technical benefits, like better support for semantic interoperability in text encoding practices, easier cross-corpora query processing, seamless integration with Linked Open Data ecosystem. In second place, it would give a formalized account of the quasi-formal notion of the TEI abstract model, fostering the consistency and soundness of the TEI model. Given the complexity of the TEI encoding schema, such an ontology must necessarily have a very complex architecture, and its thorough definition will be a time consuming intellectual activity: in a first stage, we propose to limit its scope to a well-defined subdomain of the TEI, and to build it adopting pre-existing meta-ontology like EARMARK. The final part of the article gives some preliminary details of this designhttps://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/8174TEImarkup languageontology |
| spellingShingle | Fabio Ciotti A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative Umanistica Digitale TEI markup language ontology |
| title | A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative |
| title_full | A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative |
| title_fullStr | A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative |
| title_short | A Formal Ontology for the Text Encoding Initiative |
| title_sort | formal ontology for the text encoding initiative |
| topic | TEI markup language ontology |
| url | https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/8174 |
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