TY - JOUR T1 - The Enslaved Ontology: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade JF - Journal of Web Semantics Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cogan Shimizu A1 - Pascal Hitzler A1 - Quinn Hirt A1 - Dean Rehberger A1 - Seila Gonzalez Estrecha A1 - Catherine Foley A1 - Alicia M. Sheill A1 - Walter Hawthorne A1 - Jeff Mixter A1 - Ethan Watrall A1 - Ryan Carty A1 - Duncan Tarr KW - data integration KW - digital humanities KW - history of the slave trade KW - modular ontology KW - Ontology Design Patterns AB -

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.

VL - 63 ER -