Introduction to Application Profiles

Application Profiles are collections of classes and properties related to a specific topic.

For example, the profile "biographical basics & family" combines classes & properties that identify a person and describe the essential elements of his or her biography.

Introduction

In Geovistory, all information is recorded in semantically clearly defined classes, such as "persons" or "geographical places". These classes are interlinked through events such as a "birth" that took place at a "geographical place" and brought into life a "person".

These classes are structured according to the ontology of CIDOC CRM and domain specific extensions. This ontology-based approach ensures data interoperability and allows reuse in accordance with the FAIR principles as for all data points it is well defined what they mean.

OntoMe

The classes and their relations are managed in the collaborative ontology-management platform OntoMe. OntoMe itself is an open platform for the development, management and sharing of ontologies. As an academic and open collaborative platform, OntoMe ensures that the classes correspond to an academically agreed stadnard.

This is why in Geovistory our application profiles are called OntoMe-Profiles.

Application Profiles

In OntoMe, classes and their properties are bundled in meaningful collections and then "imported" into Geovistory for their use in research projects. In this sense, each Application Profile corresponds to a collections of classes and properties related to a specific topic.

Example of such topics are:

• Biographical basics & family

• Professional life

• Maritime history

Biographical basics & family: This profile combines classes and properties that identify a person and describe the essential elements of his or her biography.

The subsequent pages describe the different application profiles, the classes currently available in Geovistory and how to use them.

Learn here how to activate an additional OntoMe profile for your Geovistory project.