Building Ontologies for Humanities and Social Sciences
Organiser
Yuwei Lin, NCeSS Hub, University of Manchester.
Date and Location
Friday 23 March 2007
Room 1.69 - 1.70, Humanities Bridgeford St. Building, University of Manchester
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Workshop Summary
This one-day workshop consisted of six invited presentations and a wrap-up discussion.
The Themes explored covered:
- What and how ontologies technologies are used in social sciences?
- How do ontology technologies help social scientists advance their research?
- How ontologies in humanities and social sciences are developed? and how knowledge are managed through ontologies?
Programme
The Promise and Challenges of the Semantic Web in e-Science (4.08MB)
David de Roure, University of Southampton
Designing a Shared Representation (258KB)
Emma Tonkin, UKOLN
Fuzzy Logic: Lessons from the Data Chronicles Project (212KB)
Phil Edwards, Data Chronicles Project, University of Manchester
Ontology-based Historical Mining in Armadillo (2.72MB)
Sam Chapman, Historical Data Mining, University of Sheffield
Why Ontologies are Only a Part of the Solution for Humanities and Social Sciences (2.20MB)
Pete Edwards, PolicyGrid, University of Aberdeen
Indexing and Social Science Data: utilising new methods and tools (2.50MB)
Ken Miller, UKDA
Wrap-up Discussion (98KB)
Lead by NCeSS Ontology Research Team