Library Trends

Abstract:

Historical events in the Republic of China era played an important role in the development of China. If digitized, connected, and analyzed within the scope of digital humanities, these historical events will provide a new perspective for the study of humanities. However, it is hard to construct a universal rule for description. This study aims to design an event-based ontology that models, organizes, and represents historical events in an explicit way. Procedures for the construction of the historical event-based ontology are as follows: identifying and selecting typical events based on trigger words, analyzing the constituent elements of historical events, reusing concepts and properties by referencing existing ontology vocabularies, establishing the historical event-based ontology model, and validating the model with actual historical data. The verification results of each type of event and each instance are displayed in visual forms. A representative historical figure associated with several types of events is selected, and the event relationship network is established. With great potential to be further developed, the model will help historical scholars deal with areas such as economic and micro-social history. Future research will input more complete data to enlarge the scale of the model.