Applying and Developing Semantic Web Technologies for Exploiting a Corpus in History of Science: the Case Study of the Henri Poincaré Correspondence

Olivier Bruneau (1) , Nicolas Lasolle (1, 2, 3) , Jean Lieber (2, 3) , Emmanuel Nauer (2, 3) , Siyana Pavlova (2, 1, 3) , Laurent Rollet (1)

1 AHP-PReST - Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies
2 LORIA - Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications
3 Data Science, Knowledge, Reasoning and Engineering - K team

The Henri Poincaré correspondence is a corpus of letters sent and received by this mathematician. The edition of this correspondence is a long-term project begun during the 1990s. Since 1999, a website is devoted to publish online this correspondence with digitized letters. In 2017, it has been decided to reforge this website using Omeka S. This content management system offers useful services but some user needs have led to the development of an RDFS infrastructure associated to it. Approximate and explained searches are managed thanks to SPARQL query transformations. A prototype for efficient RDF annotation of this corpus (and similar corpora) has been designed and implemented. This article deals with these three research issues and how they are addressed.

Mots clés: approximate and explained search; SPARQL query transformation; RDF(S); history of science; Digital Humanities; Henri Poincaré; scientific correspondence; corpus annotation

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Informatique [cs]

Olivier Bruneau, Nicolas Lasolle, Jean Lieber, Emmanuel Nauer, Siyana Pavlova, et al.. Applying and Developing Semantic Web Technologies for Exploiting a Corpus in History of Science: the Case Study of the Henri Poincaré Correspondence. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 2021, 12 (2), pp.359-378. ⟨10.3233/SW-200400⟩. ⟨hal-02879820v2⟩