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An Ontology for Historical Research Documents

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In this paper we present the conceptual layer of stole, our ontology-based digital archive aiming at helping historical researchers to organize data, extract information and derive new knowledge from historical documents.

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Notes

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    stole is the acronym for the Italian “STOria LEgislativa della pubblica amministrazione italiana”, that means “Legislative History of Italian Public Administration”.

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    arap is the acronym for the Italian “Archivio di Riviste sull’Amministrazione Pubblica”, that means “Archive of Journals on Italian Public Administration”.

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    http://www.openlinksw.com/.

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    http://lodlive.it.

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The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the paper. The authors would also like to thank Dott. Salvatore Mura and Prof. Francesco Soddu for the valuable discussions about the application domain. This work has been partially supported by MIUR.

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Adorni, G., Maratea, M., Pandolfo, L., Pulina, L. (2015). An Ontology for Historical Research Documents. In: ten Cate, B., Mileo, A. (eds) Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22002-4_2

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