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Challenges for Ontological Engineering in the Humanities – A Case Study of Philosophy

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The paper develops an idea of an engineering ontology whose purpose is to represent philosophy as a research discipline in the humanities. I discuss a three recent attempts in this respect with the aim to identify their modelling potential. The upshot of this analysis leads to a new conceptual framework for ontological engineering for philosophy. I show how this framework can be implemented in the form of a simple OWL ontology.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

    Pawel Garbacz

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  1. Institute of Thessaloniki, Alexander Technological Educational, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Richard J. Hartley

  3. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Panorea Gaitanou

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Garbacz, P. (2015). Challenges for Ontological Engineering in the Humanities – A Case Study of Philosophy. In: Garoufallou, E., Hartley, R., Gaitanou, P. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24129-6_3

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