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Awesome Ontologies for Digital Humanities

A curated list of ontologies for Digital Humanities

What is an awesome list?

This list collects useful ontologies, vocabularies, terminologies, and taxonomies for modelling and publishing datasets from Humanities domains as Linked Data. If you wish to contribute, send a PR or get in touch with IISG Data & Augmentation or Albert Meroño or Melodee Beals.

General
Cultural heritage
Periodicals
Musicology
Language
Fiction studies

General

Persons, places, events, time, documents

CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) - provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation
CRMinf Argumentation Model - an Extension of CIDOC-CRM to support argumentation
ELLST - The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and, increasingly, environmental science.
FOAF vocabulary - linking people and information
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Record (FRBR) - for describing documents and their evolution
Geonames - covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge
GeoSPARQL - the richest and most common spatial ontologies, plus an optional SPARQL extension (hence the name) that supports spatial reasoning over geodata that are annotated with its ontology. Supported by various triples stores, such as TriplyDB (Druid) triple stores
IDS - The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations.
INTRO - INTRO is an Intertextual Relationships Ontology for literary studies
PROV ontology - set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be used to represent and interchange provenance information
NIE-INE ontologies - infrastructure developed to ensure long-term storage of data of scientific edition projects in the Humanities at the Swiss Universities of Basel, Bern, Zürich, and Geneva
LIO - A Lightweight Ontology for Describing Images
OWL Time - Time ontology in OWL
Perio.do - a gazetteer of period definitions for linking and visualizing data
Simple Event Model (SEM) - an ontology for modelling events
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) - standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web
schema.org - schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond
VIAF - combines multiple name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service

Cultural Heritage / History

Cultural heritage objects, museums, archaeology, etc.

Linked Art Data Model - The Linked Art Data Model is a (CIDOC-CRM) application profile that can be used to describe cultural heritage resources, with a focus on artworks and museum-oriented activities. It defines common patterns and terms to ensure that the resulting data can be easily used and is based on real-world data and use cases.
CRMArcheo Excavation Model - an ontology and RDF Schema to encode metadata about the archaeological excavation process (CIDOC-CRM extensnion)
Europeana Data Model (EDM) - proposal for structuring the data that Europeana will be ingesting, managing and publishing on museums, digital archives and digital libraries
Getty AAT Art and Architecture Thesaurus - an evolving vocabulary, growing and changing on art and architecture
JUSO - Juso Ontology is a Web vocabulary for describing geographical addresses and features
PNV - The Person Name Vocabulary (PNV) is an rdf vocabulary and data model for persons' names
ROAR - Ontology to describe person, location etc. observations in archival resources
ICONCLASS - a multilingual classification system for cultural content, the de facto global standard for subject classification

Periodicals

Newspapers, magazines, etc.

Enumeration and Chronology of Periodicals Ontology (ECPO)

Musicology

Scores, music metadata, symbolic notations

DOing REusable MUSical data (DOREMUS) datamodel - Events, works, expressions around classic music data
MIDI ontology - for publishing MIDI pieces, tracks, events, and their attributes
MusicOWL - ontology for encoding music scores of western music
Music ontology (MO) - provides main concepts and properties for describing music (i.e. artists, albums and tracks) on the Semantic Web
Music theory ontology (MTO)

Language

Lexicology, named entity recognition, etc.

Lemon - Lemon is a proposed model for modeling lexicon and machine-readable dictionaries and linked to the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud
Lexvo - brings information about languages, words, characters, and other human language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web

Fiction Studies

Film, literature, etc.

Drammar - a comprehensive ontology of drama
Literary Theme Ontology (LTO) - a taxonomy of defined literary themes for thematically annotating works of fiction
Taxonomy of Themes and Motifs (TTM2) - a taxonomy of approximately 1,250 Latin labeled themes/motifs, categorized into six different areas: Animalia [Animals], Arbores et virentia [Trees and Plants], Homines [Men], Dei et heroes [Gods and Heroes], Loca [Places], and finally Res [Things]

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