Semantic Web for BIBLIMOS

Béatrice Bouchou Markhoff (1) , Mohamed Lamine Diakité (2) , Sophie Caratini (3) , Francesco Coreale (3) , Adel Ghamnia (1)

1 BDTLN - Bases de données et traitement des langues naturelles
2 DMI, USTM - Département de Mathématiques et Informatique, Université des Sciences de Technologie et de Médecine, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
3 CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés

We present the BIBLIMOS project, which aims to address the Western Saharan culture and history, by considering both local ancient Arabic manuscripts and European colonial archives. We describe the project’s context and objectives before focusing on ancient Mauritanian manuscripts, the content of which covers many scientific fields. We assess the current state of such ancient manuscripts’ digital processing and we analyse what the semantic web can bring for their use by scholars, from North and South: the ability for applications to operate jointly on several distributed and heterogeneous sources of digitized manuscripts and other kinds of archives, to support collaborative reflection.

Mots clés: Ancient Arabic Manuscript; Data Integration; Semantic Virtual Infrastructure

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Web

Béatrice Bouchou Markhoff, Mohamed Lamine Diakité, Sophie Caratini, Francesco Coreale, Adel Ghamnia. Semantic Web for BIBLIMOS. Extended Semantic Web Confenrece 2015, workshop Semantic Web For Scientific Heritage (SW4SH), Jun 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia. ⟨hal-01198488⟩