The Enslaved Ontology: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2020
Abstract
We present the Enslaved Ontology (V1.0) which was developed for integrating data about the historic slave trade from diverse sources in a use case driven by historians. Ontology development followed modular ontology design principles as derived from ontology design pattern application best practices and the eXtreme Design Methodology. Ontology content focuses on data about historic persons and the event records from which this data can be taken. It also incorporates provenance modeling and some temporal and spatial aspects. The ontology is available as serialized in the Web Ontology Language OWL, and carries modularization annotations using the Ontology Pattern Language (OPLa). It is available under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
Repository Citation
Shimizu, C.,
Hitzler, P.,
Hirt, Q.,
Rehberger, D.,
Estrecha, S. G.,
Foley, C.,
Sheill, A. M.,
Hawthorne, W.,
Mixter, J.,
Watrall, E.,
Carty, R.,
& Tarr, D.
(2020). The Enslaved Ontology: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade. Journal of Web Semantics, 63.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cse/740
DOI
10.1016/j.websem.2020.100567
