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Research on Knowledge Organization and Visualization of Historical Events in the Republic of China Era

Li, He; Zhu, Linlin; Shen, Wang; Du, Xingye; Guan, Shuhe; Deng, Jun

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Title
Research on Knowledge Organization and Visualization of Historical Events in the Republic of China Era
Author(s)
  • Li, He
  • Zhu, Linlin
  • Shen, Wang
  • Du, Xingye
  • Guan, Shuhe
  • Deng, Jun
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
  • knowledge organization
  • visualization
  • digital humanities
Geographic Coverage
China
Abstract
Historical events in the Republic of China era played an important role in the development of China. If digitized, connected, and analyzed within the scope of digital humanities, these historical events will provide a new perspective for the study of humanities. However, it is hard to construct a universal rule for description. This study aims to design an event-based ontology that models, organizes, and represents historical events in an explicit way. Procedures for the construction of the historical event-based ontology are as follows: identifying and selecting typical events based on trigger words, analyzing the constituent elements of historical events, reusing concepts and properties by referencing existing ontology vocabularies, establishing the historical event-based ontology model, and validating the model with actual historical data. The verification results of each type of event and each instance are displayed in visual forms. A representative historical figure associated with several types of events is selected, and the event relationship network is established. With great potential to be further developed, the model will help historical scholars deal with areas such as economic and micro-social history. Future research will input more complete data to enlarge the scale of the model.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 69 (1). Summer 2020
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109280
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0023
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Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China PRIMARY
Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China. Edited by Lian Ruan and Xingye Du