Applying and developing semantic web technologies for exploiting a corpus in history of science: The case study of the Henri Poincaré correspondence

Issue title: Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage

Guest editors: Antonis Bikakis, Eero Hyvonen, Stéphane Jean, Beatrice Markhoff and Alessandro Mosca

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bruneau, Olivier^{a; *} | Lasolle, Nicolas^{a; b} | Lieber, Jean^b | Nauer, Emmanuel^b | Pavlova, Siyana^{a; b} | Rollet, Laurent^a

Affiliations: [a] AHP-PReST, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, France. E-mails: olivier.bruneau@univ-lorraine.fr, nicolas.lasolle@univ-lorraine.fr, siyana.pavlova@gmail.com, laurent.rollet@univ-lorraine.fr | [b] LORIA, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, France. E-mails: nicolas.lasolle@univ-lorraine.fr, jean.lieber@loria.fr, emmanuel.nauer@loria.fr, siyana.pavlova@gmail.com

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: olivier.bruneau@univ-lorraine.fr.

Abstract: The Henri Poincaré correspondence is a corpus of letters sent and received by this mathematician. The edition of this correspondence is a long-term project begun during the 1990s. Since 1999, a website is devoted to publish online this correspondence with digitized letters. In 2017, it has been decided to reforge this website using Omeka S. This content management system offers useful services but some user needs have led to the development of an RDFS infrastructure associated to it. Approximate and explained searches are managed thanks to SPARQL query transformations. A prototype for efficient RDF annotation of this corpus (and similar corpora) has been designed and implemented. This article deals with these three research issues and how they are addressed.

Keywords: History of science, Digital Humanities, Henri Poincaré, scientific correspondence, RDF(S), approximate and explained search, SPARQL query transformation, corpus annotation

DOI: 10.3233/SW-200400

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 359-378, 2021