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Example: SemanticLinnaeus

• Honoring the Linnaeus tercentenary 2007, the development of this prototype was started around Carl Linnaeus. We named it the SemanticLinnaeus.

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 @)

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It is based on a specially designed ontology: HiSTEMM. To know more about the project, follow the link Historiographus:About

Project Coordinator: José Pedro Sousa Dias.

Affiliation of the project: Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa and Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia da Ciência. It will eventually be part of HIPST (History and Philosophy in Science Teaching) Project.

Presentation: Project Historiographus and HiSTEMM ontology: A semantic wiki for the history of science

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Documents

A first description of the project (in Portuguese): "Hipertexto, anotações semânticas e rede(s) na História das Ciências, da Tecnologia e da Medicina: O Projecto Historiographus". Paper presented to Segundo Encontro de História das Ciências Naturais e da Saúde. Lisboa (Portugal), Culturgest. 7-8 July 2007.

Linnaeus' route in his Lapland journey (1732)

The image Linnaeus-Lapland-jouney.jpg, belonging to the Cartographic maps category, depicts Linnaeus expedition to Lapland in 1732.

Historiographus was planned having in mind that the ability to draw maps is a primary necessity in history teaching and research. To know how, follow the link to the section Maps and cartography.