Materialized Histories. Eine Festschrift 2.0 für Prof. Dr. Susanna Burghartz / Asmussen, Tina; Brugger, Eva; Christadler, Maike; Rathmann-Lutz, Anja; Reimann, Anna; Roth, Carla; Schober, Sarah-Maria; Serif, Ina / Reading an XML Text Like a Human with Semantic Web Technologies. Learning from the Basel City Accounts as Digital Edition

The digital scholarly edition of the Basel City Accounts has been successful in its combination of TEI/XML encoded transcriptions with RDF representation of the historical content of the accounts. The contribution discusses the use of the RDF rule language SHACL to define a formalism to convert the implicit structure of the XML encoding into explicit RDF statements. It suggests to use precedence and dominance of XML elements as indicators for the implicit information. SHACL can serve as the formalisation of constraints. used to extract XPath expressions, which include missing explicit information from elements in the ancestor or preceding axis. With this method, a formal description of the target data model can be used to generate XSLTs converting the TEI/XML into RDF/XML. Version of record