Andrew Ashton's presentation from DH2010; discusses techniques for using RDF/OWL as a mechanism for using TEI -encoded texts in distributed analysis and publication frameworks.

1. Semantic cartography Using ontologies to create adaptable tools for text exploration

2. TEI and SEASR SEASR: Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to develop a set of SEASR tools for exploring TEI-encoded texts.

3. The SEASR Workbench

4. The SEASR Workbench: Output

5. Problem: How do we handle variability in the incoming TEI due to: Idiosyncratic encoding Inconsistent encoding TEI’s native flexibility

6. Semantic Mapping using Ontologies RDF uses ontologies (RDFS/OWL) to associate a piece of data with a conceptual framework: Example: xmlns:dbo=http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ Class: dbo:populatedPlace Subclass: dbo:country Instance: “Spain”

7. Ontological definition Understands Is RDF “Slice”[1] Software The Semantic Map allows any software that can interpret RDF to work with any semantic idea that can be associated with an ontological definition. 1http://rdftef.sourceforge.net/

8. Demo RDF TEI RDFa (aka XHTML+ RDF) RDF RDF

9. Contact: Andrew_Ashton@brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds http://wwp.brown.edu Twitter: @andyashton Acknowledgements NEH ODH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program; Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman and John Melson