SW4SH 2016 - 2nd Int. Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage (SW4SH)

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion about the methodological approaches to the specificity of semantically annotating “scientific” texts (in the wide sense of the term, including disciplines such as history, architecture, or rhetoric), and to support a collaborative reflection, on possible guidelines or specific models for building historical ontologies. A key goal of the workshop, focusing on research issues related to pre-modern scientific texts, is to emphasize the benefit of a multidisciplinary research to create and operate on relevantly structured data. The workshop organizers all belong to the Zoomathia international research network funded by the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS). This network gathers French, Italian, German and English researchers and aims to study the formation and transmission of ancient zoological knowledge over a long period, with an historical, literary and epistemological approach, and create open knowledge sources on classical zoology to be published on the web of linked data. This workshop is an opportunity to present the activity of the network, to enlarge the network with interested members of the Semantic Web community and to benefit from the results of related research projects.