The document discusses the development of the SEASR Workbench, a tool for exploring TEI-encoded texts funded by a NEH Digital Humanities grant. It highlights the challenges of handling variability in TEI encoding and proposes the use of semantic mapping via ontologies and RDF to create adaptable text exploration tools. The work aims to enhance scholarly research through better integration and interpretation of encoded data.

1. Semantic cartographyUsing ontologies to create adaptable tools for text exploration

2. TEI and SEASRSEASR: Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly ResearchNEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to develop a set of SEASR tools for exploring TEI-encoded texts.

3. The SEASR Workbench

4. The SEASR Workbench: Output

5. Problem:How do we handle variability in the incoming TEI due to:Idiosyncratic encodingInconsistent encodingTEI’s native flexibility

6. Semantic Mapping using OntologiesRDF uses ontologies (RDFS/OWL) to associate a piece of data with a conceptual framework:Example:xmlns:dbo=http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Class: dbo:populatedPlaceSubclass: dbo:countryInstance: “Spain”

7. Ontological definitionUnderstandsIs RDF “Slice”[1]SoftwareThe Semantic Map allowsany software that can interpret RDF to work with any semantic idea that can be associated with an ontological definition.1http://rdftef.sourceforge.net/

8. DemoRDFTEIRDFa(aka XHTML+ RDF)RDFRDF

9. Contact:Andrew_Ashton@brown.eduhttp://library.brown.edu/cdshttp://wwp.brown.eduTwitter: @andyashtonAcknowledgementsNEH ODH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program; Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman and John Melson