The KBSET Environment
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Overview
KBSET (Knowledge-Based Support for
Scholarly Editing and Text Processing)
is an environment that provides support for scholarly editing
in two flavors:
- As a practical
tool KBSET/Letters that accompanies the
development of editions of correspondences (in particular from the
18th and 19th century), completely from source documents to PDF and
HTML presentations.
- As a prototypical
tool KBSET/NER for experimentally
investigating novel forms of working on editions that are centered
around automated named entity recognition.
KBSET can process declarative application-specific markup that is
expressed in LaTeX notation and incorporate large external fact bases
that are typically provided in RDF. As an environment, KBSET includes
specially developed LaTeX styles and a core system that is written
in SWI-Prolog, which is used
there in many roles, utilizing that it realizes the potential of
Prolog as a unifying language.
KBSET supports scholarly editing in particular in the following
respects:
- Users with a background in the Humanities can create,
review, validate and maintain the source documents of the project.
Markup does not enter as a burden but as an essential and interesting
aspect of the scientific work. Digital aspects are integrated and not
outsourced into separate organizational units.
- Print- and hypertext presentations of high quality are
easy to generate, in a reproducible way, entirely based on openly
published source documents and free software.
- Not just “final” presentations are
well-supported, but also the tools and intermediate presentations
used to develop the edition have high quality.
- Object text can be associated with information in ways
in ways that are more flexible than in-place markup. For example to
maintain text annotations separately from the text sources or to
incorporate automatically generated markup.
- Techniques such as named entity recognition that
represent aspects of the semantics of natural language in fuzzy,
imprecise, or incomplete ways can be integrated.
- Linking with external fact bases is be supported.
These include results of other edition projects as well as large fact
bases such as authority files like
Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND),
domain specific fact bases
like GeoNames, or aggregated
bases like YAGO
and DBpedia.
- Data are created more or less explicitly in any
edition project. They can be made explicit and accessible in a
sustainable way as a result of the project, bridging the way to
machine processable semantics, that is, techniques based on
computational logics, knowledge representation, knowledge processing,
and automated reasoning.
The following paper describes the KBSET environment in more
detail:
- KBSET – Knowledge-Based
Support for Scholarly Editing and Text Processing with Declarative
LaTeX Markup and a Core Written in SWI-Prolog
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In: Declarative Programming and Knowledge
Management (DECLARE 2019), Revised Selected Papers
volume 12057 of LNCS (LNAI), pages 160-177. Springer, 2020.
DOI |
Preprint
The following article (in German) includes a presentation of KBSET in
the context of current practices and perspectives of the [Digital]
Humanities. It shows that key figures of the Enlightenment like
Sulzer and Lambert may be viewed as Digital Humanists par excellence.
- Von
der Transkription zur Wissensbasis. Zum Zusammenspiel von
digitalen Editionstechniken und Formen der
Wissensrepräsentation am Beispiel von Korrespondenzen
Johann Georg Sulzers
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In Jana Kittelmann and Anne Purschwitz (eds.):
Aufklärungsforschung digital. Konzepte, Methoden,
Perspektiven, pages 84-114, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2019
Publisher's
Page
| Preprint
KBSET/Letters
Example: Sulzer/Veltheim – A Miniature Correspondence
Edition
An edition of the four letters comprising the preserved correspondence
between Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–1779) and Friedrich August von
Veltheim (1709–1775) prepared
by Jana Kittelmann. In
German. This example is included in the KBSET distribution.
Documentation
Applications
KBSET/NER
Example: A Draft Edition
A draft edition of Max Stirner: Geschichte der Reaction, Band
1, Berlin 1852. This example is included in the KBSET
distribution.
Documentation
Availability
License
The software components included in the KBSET distribution are
released as free software under
the GNU General
Public License and the documentation under the
GNU Free
Documentation License. The distribution includes examples to
demonstrate the functionality and application of KBSET. They are
based on source texts that are either in the public domain or have
been published for the first time by the authors of the example
documents. All rights in the example documents that go beyond the
source texts (i.e., in annotations, markup and other treatments) are
retained by their authors.
Latest Version
Obtaining the KBSET Distribution by Cloning its Repository
$ git clone
http://cs.christophwernhard.com/git/kbset.git
Obtaining the KBSET Distribution as Archive
Literature and Presentations
-
KBSET – Knowledge-Based Support for Scholarly Editing and Text
Processing with Declarative LaTeX Markup and a
Core Written in SWI-Prolog
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In: Declarative Programming and Knowledge
Management (DECLARE 2019), Revised Selected Papers
volume 12057 of LNCS (LNAI), pages 160-177. Springer, 2020.
DOI |
Preprint |
Presentation slides
-
Von
der Transkription zur Wissensbasis. Zum Zusammenspiel von
digitalen Editionstechniken und Formen der
Wissensrepräsentation am Beispiel von Korrespondenzen
Johann Georg Sulzers
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In Jana Kittelmann and Anne Purschwitz (eds.):
Aufklärungsforschung
digital. Konzepte, Methoden, Perspektiven, pages 84-114,
Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2019
Preprint
-
KBSET
– Knowledge-Based Support for Scholarly Editing and Text
Processing
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In Pre-proceedings
of the DECLARE 2019 Conference, 2019
-
Knowledge-Based Support for Scholarly Editing and Text
Processing
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In DHd 2016 – Digital
Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum: Modellierung –
Vernetzung – Visualisierung. Die Digital Humanities als
fächerübergreifendes
Forschungsparadigma. Konferenzabstracts, pages 176-179, 2016
Presentation slides (in German)
-
Towards
Knowledge-Based Assistance for Scholarly Editing
Jana Kittelmann and Christoph Wernhard
In 1st
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving, AITP
2016. Book of Abstracts, pages 29-31, 2016
Presentation slides
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Christoph Wernhard