The Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis Christian Rau, Christian Augustin and Thomas Riechert University of Leipzig, Germany Modern and Contemporary History and Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Digital Humanities Luxemburg 2012 1 / 19
Agenda 1 Motivation and historical background of the project 2 Main Concepts: The representation of a Professor in CPL 3 Collaboration: Perspectives of CPL in the field of historical research 4 Linked Data Life-Cycle 5 Further development of tools for CPL and project timeline 2 / 19
Facts about Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis (CPL) In 2009 University of Leipzig celebrated 600th anniversary 2nd oldest University in Germany Prosopographical catalog containing facts about 2,000 professors 15,000 associated periods of life 400 institutions The resulting OWL knowledge base consists of 210,000 triples in core CPL 180,000 manually added 3 / 19
Prosopographical research Analysis of common characteristics of historical groups Statistically relevant quantities of individual biographies Research use cases: Historical social network analysis Academic self-complementation analysis Relationship between religion, society and university 4 / 19
Research potentials Figure: Map of current research on professors catalogs 5 / 19
Public access to CPL Figure: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/ 6 / 19
Catalogus Professorum Model (CPM) Figure: Concepts 7 / 19
Catalogus Professorum Model (CPM) Figure: Concept models 7 / 19
Catalogus Professorum Model (CPM) Figure: Interlinked concepts 7 / 19
Research interaction Figure: Interactions between institutions and IT systems 8 / 19
Example: Prof. Dr. phil. Gerhard Kessler (1883-1963) 9 / 19
Collaboration using a semantic data wiki Intuitive authoring of semantic content Collaborative and spatial distributed Keeping track of changes Allowing comments and discussions Instant visual representation Different views on instance data OntoWiki 10 / 19
The semantic data wiki OntoWiki 11 / 19
Why Linked Open Data? Problem: Search for professors who have taught in a German university before being appointed to University of Leipzig. Figure: Considering information from different web resources 12 / 19
Why Linked Open Data? Problem: Search for professors who have taught in a German university before being appointed to University of Leipzig. Figure: Web sites publishing data for human consumption 12 / 19
Why Linked Open Data? Problem: Search for professors who have taught in a German university before being appointed to University of Leipzig. Figure: Web sites publishing data that can be automatically interpreted 12 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Initial import of CPL from single database table 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Using of Virtuoso Triple Store or Erfurt-API and MYSQL 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Authoring using OntoWiki 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Current research field of CPL DBpedia, PND, LinkedGeoData 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Current research field of CPL New German Biography 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Current research field of CPL Research Network 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Evolution Patterns 13 / 19
Linked Data Life Cycle Public and Research Interface, Relationship Finder, Query Builder 13 / 19
Project timeline 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 Edits 6000 4000 2000 0 2008-11 2009-03 2009-07 2009-11 2010-03 2010-07 2010-11 2011-03 2011-07 2011-11 2012-03 2008-09 2009-01 2009-05 2009-09 2010-01 2010-05 2010-09 2011-01 2011-05 2011-09 2012-01 Figure: Overall activities on CPL 14 / 19
Publications I Auer, Sören ; Dietzold, Sebastian ; Riechert, Thomas: OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration. In: Cruz, Isabel F. (Hrsg.) ; Decker, Stefan (Hrsg.) ; Allemang, Dean (Hrsg.) ; Preist, Chris (Hrsg.) ; Schwabe, Daniel (Hrsg.) ; Mika, Peter (Hrsg.) ; Uschold, Michael (Hrsg.) ; Aroyo, Lora (Hrsg.): Proceedings of 5th International Semantic Web Conference 2006 Bd. 4273, Springer, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). ISBN 3 540 49029 9, 736 749 15 / 19
Publications II Augustin, Christian ; Morgenstern, Ulf ; Riechert, Thomas: Der Leipziger Professorenkatalog. Ein Anwendungsbeispiel für kollaboratives Strukturieren von Daten und zeitnahes Publizieren von Ergebnissen basierend auf Technologien des Semantic Web und einer agilen Methode des Wissensmanagements. In: Schomburg, Silke (Hrsg.) ; Leggewie, Claus (Hrsg.) ; Lobin, Henning (Hrsg.) ; Puschmann, Cornelius (Hrsg.): Digitale Wissenschaft Stand und Entwicklung digital vernetzter Forschung in Deutschland. Köln : Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2011, S. 41 44 16 / 19
Publications III Morgenstern, Ulf (Hrsg.) ; Riechert, Thomas (Hrsg.): Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik. Bd. 21: Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis Konzeption, technische Umsetzung und Anwendungen für Professorenkataloge im Semantic Web. Leipzig, Germany : Leipziger Informatik-Verbund (LIV), 2010 http://catalogus-professorum.org/buch. ISBN 978 3 941608 08 5 Riechert, Thomas ; Morgenstern, Ulf ; Auer, Sören ; Tramp, Sebastian ; Martin, Michael: Knowledge Engineering for Historians on the Example of the Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis. In: Patel-Schneider, Peter F. (Hrsg.) ; Pan, Yue (Hrsg.) ; Hitzler, Pascal (Hrsg.) ; Mika, Peter (Hrsg.) ; Zhang, Lei (Hrsg.) ; Pan, Jeff Z. (Hrsg.) ; Horrocks, Ian (Hrsg.) ; 17 / 19
Publications IV Glimm, Birte (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) Bd. 6497. Shanghai / China : Springer, 2010 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 225 240 18 / 19
Thank you for your attention! Christian Rau christian.rau@uni-leipzig.de Thomas Riechert riechert@informatik.uni-leipzig.de http://aksw.org http://catalogus-professorum.org http://www.uni-leipzig.de/ unigeschichte/professorenkatalog 19 / 19