Florence, 16 June 2003

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Demonstration of the MESMUSES portal at the
Museum of the History of Science

• Florence, 16 June 2003
• Andrea Scotti

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Summary

• Mapping the historiography the class tree
  definition of a science history test bed.
• The transformations of the ontologies in the
  project samples of models used.
• Creating a dump db for the portal data the
  relational evironment for the dynamic creation of
  the schema architetture.
• Navigation (samples) of the schema the final
  interface/s, querying and rendering.
• The Itineraries navigation semantic units VS
  schema

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• Mapping the historiography the class tree
  definition of a science history test bed.
• The obejcts and their classification/interpretatio
  n history existing historiographical methods and
  existing structured digital descriptions. Samples
  from the test beds survey.
• The surplus benefit of structuring/restructuring
  into the ontologies the existing digital
  repositories.
• Choosing the representative classes and relative
  properties for the the tree definition.

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1. The objects (exp1.) Galileos Giovilabio and
its sources
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1. The objects (exp2.) Lavoisiers areometer
and its sources
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• The transformations of the ontologies in the
  project samples of models used.
• Schema high specialization that was describing
  the entire complexity of the objects and concepts
  required for the knowledge representation of the
  two quoted test beds.
• Schema attempt to simplify the schema by means
  of generalization of the concepts.
• Schema re-specialization of the knowledge
  concepts and determination of the historical
  foundation classes.
• Schema final class tree used in the portal.

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1st schema
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1st schema
2nd schema
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2nd schema
3rd schema
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4th schema
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• Creating a dump db for the portal data the
  relational evironment for the dynamic creation of
  the schema architetture and the instance
  population.

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• Navigation (samples) of the schema the final
  interface/s, querying and rendering.

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E. The Itineraries navigation semantic units
VS schema