eXtreme Design for Digital Humanities – Tilting at Ontological Windmills with Patterns and Principles?
Published in Zenodo (Conference paper), 2025
Recommended citation: Ondraszek, Sarah Rebecca, Norouzi, Ebrahim, Söhn, Linnaea Charlotte, Steller, Jonatan Jalle, Schrade, Torsten, Sack, Harald (2025). "eXtreme Design for Digital Humanities – Tilting at Ontological Windmills with Patterns and Principles?". Zenodo (Conference paper).
This paper is a workshop proposal (abstract) for the DHd conference 2025.Ontologies and knowledge graphs (KGs) have become irreplaceable instruments in the toolkit of digital humanities (DH) research. They offer ways to represent and interconnect a myriad of heterogeneous resources in a standardized, structured manner. This workshop aims to both foster the use of ontologies in the DH and address recurring challenges in DH ontology engineering, proposing improvements with eXtreme design (XD) as a fundamental principle for future semantic technology endeavors. XD is a dynamic, iterative approach that focuses on modularization and the (re)use of ontology design patterns (ODPs) [1-6]. It represents a systematic approach for the development of distinctive architectures for knowledge representations. Participants will be confronted with questions regarding the creation and use of ontologies and recurring challenges and pitfalls in ontologies and ontology engineering. Through use cases, the workshop aims to simulate an ontology engineering process with XD and motivate participants to critically evaluate the workflow and the resulting ontologies.
Recommended citation: Ondraszek, Sarah Rebecca, Norouzi, Ebrahim, Söhn, Linnaea Charlotte, Steller, Jonatan Jalle, Schrade, Torsten, Sack, Harald (2025). “eXtreme Design for Digital Humanities – Tilting at Ontological Windmills with Patterns and Principles?”. Zenodo (Conference paper). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14760438