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A team for Historiographus

The development of Historiographus was started and has remained so far as a one man effort. That should come to an end as soon as possible, and the present Historiographus should be replaced by a real team based project.

Plans were set up for its inclusion as part of WP3 "Development and maintenance of a semantic wiki knowledge base" of European Union funded HIPST (History and Philosophy in Science Teaching) Project, but we are still not sure that it is going to be possible.

Although the inclusion in HIPST would be important, allowing for a wider visibility, a more robust web infrastructure and the interaction with other HIPST work packages, it would not solve the need for a real development team.

Historiographus needs urgently the collaboration of history of science and information researchers, and we eagerly welcome those interested to come forward and participate.

We need two kinds of people, for two different but interconnected objectives.

We need historians and IT scientists interest in the application of the semantic web to the particular field of the history of science, for the general development of the HiSTEMM ontology and the wiki framework. As soon as we have more people working in the ontology, we will start publishing the first versions of HiSTEMM.

We also need historians of science, technology and medicine, interested in applying these concepts to particular research topics. This work collaboration may assume the shape of exploring the instances connected to particular persons, organizations or scientific views, or even maintaining portals for specific sub-disciplines, e.g for history of medicine or for history of chemistry. We should have different teams working autonomously in distinct subjects.

The project is reaching a point were both objectives can run in parallel.

Please contact us at jpsdias @ officinalis.org (remove the spaces before and after the @)

Things to do

This is just a rough draft of things to do for the Historiographus infrastructure.

Ontology

• Publication of the first beta version of the HiSTEMM ontology.
• Equivalence tables. We need equivalence tables between HiSTEMM and other main ontologies, as we have done to the DCES-Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.

Special namespaces

Maintainers. Each special namespace should have its own maintainer.

Calendar

• Calendar information is the most underdeveloped area of Historiographus. Calendar classes and properties are not well defined in the ontology.

Citation

• Citation information is quite developed at the ontology level. We need forms and templates for all the citation categories.

Geography

• Definition of classes and properties for Geographical information is also almost done. The authoring interface is also quite finished. Main categories have already their forms and templates. We should stabilize all this and move to the development of content.

Authoring interface

• We need forms and templates for all the categories.

Content

Biographies

• Creation of stubs. As we decided to adopt the DSB names as the authority for Historiographus biographical pages, we could start creating stubs in the Category:Persons category. We should use the indexes in Historiographus:Persons.

Collaboration teams

Existing teams in Historiographus's community.

Current teams

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Guidelines, help, and resources

A directory of Historiographus help pages, guidelines, and resources.

Help

• Historiographus help
• Where to ask questions

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• Online research resources
• Special pages
• Tools for editing

Policies and guidelines

Historiographus defined policies and guidelines. This is a brief sampling; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page.

Article standards

Resources

New and prospective participant information

Introduction · Help · What Historiographus is not · Glossary

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