OTG Event Model
A LOD Event Ontology to Describe the Lives of Enslaved People
On These Grounds
How can we design and disseminated a shared LOD model to describe the lived experiences of the enslaved people who labored for colleges and universities?
- Not transcription
- Not collections finding aid
- Not object metadata
- Derived
- Interpretive
- Often related to entities outside the purview of cultural heritage collections
Meso-Level data
1
Document description case studies
2
Develop Simple Model that uses single class with common properties to describe all events.
3
Develop Event Type controlled vocabulary.
5
Create description for testing universe documents using both models.
4
Design Complex Model with event classes derived from the controlled vocabulary.
6
Select and refine the model that adequately describes the domain while also being usable.
OTG Model Testing Process
Subject - Object - Predicate
URI-Property-URI
Patrick Barnes
Rel:SpouseOf
Mary Barnes
A Semantic Web...
osrdf:per.000106 a "person";
oscys:fullName "Thomas, John, III";
oscys:fullname "Thomas, John, III";
oscys:juryPoolOf osrdf:per.000057,
osrdf:per.000056,
osrdf:per.000058;
oscys:sex "male";
oscys:witnessAgainst osrdf:per.000166,
osrdf:per.000151,
osrdf:per.000150,
osrdf:per.000152;
oscys:witnessFor osrdf:per.000165,
osrdf:per.000153,
No one wants to write their own linked data....
even if it's in a simple form like Turtle.
Resource Templates
OTG Event Ontology (0.9.3)
LOD & Controlled Vocabularies
Vocab of 3 classes and 70 properties and Event Type (105), Freedom Status, Action Status, and Date Certainty controlled vocabularies.
Documentation
Defining properties, terms, data types, usage, and frequency.
Resource Templates
Omeka S Resource Templates for four record types: Event, Person, Organization, and Place.
OTG Event Types
- Commercial Transaction
- Education
- Freedom Status Transaction
- Health
- Intra-Community Conflict
- Labor
- Legal
- Life Event
- Membership
- Mention
- Narrative
- Provision
- Religious
- Resistance
- Social Interaction
- Travel
- Violence
USS-Fall2022-OTGModel
By sharonmleon
