Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] | [b] Data Archiving and Networked Services, Anna van Saksenlaan 10, 2593HT Den Haag, The Netherlands. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] | [c] International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] | [d] Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] | [e] Universiteit Utrecht, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract: During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of creation, design, enrichment, editing, retrieval, analysis and presentation of historical information with help of information technology. They also identified a number of problems and challenges in this field, some of them closely related to semantics and meaning. In this survey paper we study the joint work of historians and computer scientists in the use of Semantic Web methods and technologies in historical research. We analyse to what extent these contributions help in solving the open problems in the agenda of historians, and we describe open challenges and possible lines of research pushing further a still young, but promising, historical Semantic Web.
Keywords: Semantic Web, historical research, Digital Humanities
DOI: 10.3233/SW-140158
Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 539-564, 2015
