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Structured Descriptions of Roles, Activities, and Procedures in the Roman Constitution

verfasst von : Yoonmi Chu, Robert B. Allen

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Abstract

A highly structured description of entities and events in histories can support flexible exploration of those histories by users and, ultimately, support richly-linked full-text digital libraries. Here, we apply the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) to structure a passage about the Roman Constitution from Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Specifically, we consider the specification of Roles such as Consul, Activities associated with those Roles, and Procedures for accomplishing those Activities.

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Fußnoten
2
DOLCE [10] defines social objects that are further divided into Agentive and Non-agentive but it does not address the complexity of the social objects and interaction between them.
 
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In forthcoming work we also define Workflows. Procedures and Workflows may be related to the Information Artifacts ontology (IAO) and the Software Ontology (SWO). The authority to exercise those, as well as other aspects of the Constitution depends on the interpretation of the basis of social authority which goes back to the Smith/Searle debate.
 
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The Roman Constitution was not a single document but a set of laws. In addition, the Constitution evolved over time – especially in the transition from Republic to Empire.
 
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From Gibbon Sect. 3: The Constitution In The Age Of The Antonines.—Part I.
 
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This rule can also be expressed with property chains in OWL2.
 
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To focus on the relation of Processes and Procedures having Activities, we simplified the model by excluding spatiotemporal or temporal regions.
 
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It describes repeating patterns such as the beating of a heart in BFO2; http://​purl.​obolibrary.​org/​obo/​bfo/​2012-07-20/​bfo.​owl.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Structured Descriptions of Roles, Activities, and Procedures in the Roman Constitution
verfasst von
Yoonmi Chu
Robert B. Allen
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41938-1_6