Foto 7

Pratelli, N. A Geographical Extension for NOnt. Doctoral Consortium of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital, September 2022

Written by

Digital Libraries (DLs) are full of narratives. Besides its richness, DLs services often retrieve narrativeDigital Libraries (DLs) are full of narratives. Besides its richness, DLs services often retrieve narrativecomponents, but not the narratives as a whole. To formally represent this knowledge and to create andvisualize narratives the Digital Humanities group of ISTI-CNR has developed the Narrative Ontology(NOnt) and the Narrative Building and Visualising Tool (NBVT). In this context, my research aims toinvestigate the possibility to introduce the geospatial dimension of narratives in NOnt. Moreover, myresearch aims to extend the functionalities of NBVT to enrich the narratives with geospatial information.As a case study, I have chosen to create narratives about mountain ecosystems and economic value chainsproduced within the Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth (MOVING)European project (2020-2023). Currently, my research is still at an early stage and I have started toconduct a state-of-the-art study of the geospatial and spatiotemporal RDF/S representation techniques.Eventually, I will evaluate the extension of NOnt.

Keywords: Narrative, Digital Libraries, SemanticWeb, Ontology, Linked Open Data, Geographical Knowledge, Story Maps