Hamburg 2006


Digital MultiCulture in Practice

Semantic Web ontologization, within the context of the Humanities, proceeds from the definite physical experience of the text, the performance, the human in self-expression, as narrator/performer, for an audience present, or at a distance in time and/or space. We demonstrate practical ontologization by focusing on the rhetorics of play, embracing culture in general, and by choosing to confine our terminology within the rigorous formal framework of Sowa's top 12 central categories. Specific play is addressed in the context of the digital re- discovery of culture (DrDC) game.

All of our results are bilingually expressed (English/Bulgarian) in the description logic form of the Semantic Web Ontology Language (OWL-DL). Practicality is ensured within the freely available Protégé Editor. For us, Ontology must be practical! We design DrDC games to be played. Such games must be recorded. They are played out, in reality, on the World-Wide Web (WWW).

The following is a preprint of our paper to be presented at the International Workshop
„ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES“, 7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop {2006-03-19}

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