DigItAnt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources
Michele Mallia, Michela Bandini, Andrea Bellandi, Francesca Murano, Silvia Piccini, Luca Rigobianco, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari, Mariarosaria Zinzi, Valeria Quochi
Abstract
Over the past few years, the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies has witnessed significant advancements across a myriad of sectors, linguistics included. This progression is characterized by an exponential increase in the conversion of resources to adhere to contemporary encoding standards. Such transformations are driven by the objectives outlined in “ecological” methodologies, notably the FAIR data principles, which advocate for the reuse and interoperability of resources. This paper presents the DigItAnt architecture, developed in the context of a national project funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and in the service of a recently started Italian endeavor to realize a federation of infrastructures for the humanities. It details its services, utilities and data types, and shows how it manages to produce, exploit and interlink LLOD and non-LLOD datasets in ways that are meaningful to its intended target disciplinary context, i.e. historical linguistics over epigraphy data. The paper also introduces how DigItAnt services and functionalities will contribute to the empowerment of the H2IOSC Italian infrastructures cluster project, which is devoted to the construction of a nationwide research infrastructure federation for the humanities, and it will possibly contribute to its pilot project towards an authoritative LLOD platform.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.ldl-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Christian Chiarcos, Katerina Gkirtzou, Maxim Ionov, Fahad Khan, John P. McCrae, Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Patricia Martín Chozas
- Venues:
- LDL | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 55–65
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.ldl-1.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Michele Mallia, Michela Bandini, Andrea Bellandi, Francesca Murano, Silvia Piccini, Luca Rigobianco, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari, Mariarosaria Zinzi, and Valeria Quochi. 2024. DigItAnt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 55–65, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- DigItAnt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources (Mallia et al., LDL-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.ldl-1.8.pdf