The SeaLiT Ontology is a formal ontology intended to facilitate the integration, mediation and interchange of heterogeneous information related to maritime history. It aims at providing the semantic definitions needed to transform disparate, localised information sources of maritime history into a coherent global resource. It also serves as a common language for domain experts and IT developers to formulate requirements and to agree on system functionalities with respect to the correct handling of historical (maritime) information.
The ontology has been developed following a bottom-up process from primary data collected in the context of the SeaLiT Project (Seafaring Lives in Transition, Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping, 1850s-1920s). SeaLiT is an international research project, funded by the ERC Starting Grant 2016, which explores the transition from sail to steam navigation and its effects on seafaring populations in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea between the 1850s and the 1920s.
Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s.(ERC Grant: 714437); Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Pavlos Fafalios
fafalios [at] ics.forth.gr
EU Horizon 2020 (ERC-2016-STG)
Based on emerging issues; Future alignment with newer stable versions of CIDOC CRM.
FORTH, SeaLiT, PortADa