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Data Integration for the Arts and Humanities: A Language Theoretical Concept

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In the context of the arts and humanities, heterogeneity largely corresponds to the variety of disciplines, their research questions and communities. Resulting from the diversity of the application domain, the analysis of overall requirements and the subsequent derivation of appropriate unifying schemata is prevented by the complexity and size of the domain. The approach presented in this paper is based on the hypothesis that data integration problems in the arts and humanities can be solved on the theoretical foundation of formal languages. In applying a theoretically substantiated framework, integrative solutions on the formal basis of language specifications can be tailored to specific and individual research needs—abstracting from reoccurring technical difficulties and leading the focus of domain experts on semantic aspects.

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Notes

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    http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/.

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    http://ws.pangaea.de/oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.50542.

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    The nonterminal element has been renamed to represent its content, the associated terminal references dc:subject—keeping the parsing-oriented structure intact.

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    As pendant to STRING in the Creator and SubjectList grammars.

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    http://geobrowser.de.dariah.eu/.

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    https://developers.google.com/kml/.

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    http://www.geonames.org/.

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  1. Media Informatics Group, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Tobias Gradl & Andreas Henrich

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  1. Universität Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany

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  2. Hungarian Academy of Science , Budapest, Hungary

    László Kovács

  3. Leibniz Universität Hannover , Hannover, Germany

    Thomas Risse

  4. Leibniz Universität Hannover , Hannover, Germany

    Wolfgang Nejdl

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Gradl, T., Henrich, A. (2016). Data Integration for the Arts and Humanities: A Language Theoretical Concept. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_22

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