Abstract

The paper presents the Story Map Building and Visualizing Tool (SMBVT) that allows users to create story maps within a collaborative environment and a usable Web interface. It is entirely open-source and published as a free-to-use solution. It uses Semantic Web technologies in the back-end system to represent stories through a reference ontology for representing narratives. It builds up a user-shared semantic knowledge base that automatically interconnects all stories and seamlessly enables collaborative story building. Finally, it operates within an Open-Science oriented e-Infrastructure, which enables data and information sharing within communities of narrators, and adds multi-tenancy, multi-user, security, and access-control facilities. SMBVT represents narratives as a network of spatiotemporal events related by semantic relations and standardizes the event descriptions by assigning internationalized resource identifiers (IRIs) to the event components, i.e., the entities that take part in the event (e.g., persons, objects, places, concepts). The tool automatically saves the collected knowledge as a Web Ontology Language (OWL) graph and openly publishes it as Linked Open Data. This feature allows connecting the story events to other knowledge bases. To evaluate and demonstrate our tool, we used it to describe the Apuan Alps territory in Tuscany (Italy). Based on a user-test evaluation, we assessed the tool’s effectiveness at building story maps and the ability of the produced story to describe the territory beyond the map.

中文翻译：

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使用语义故事地图来描述地图之外的领域

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本文介绍了故事地图构建和可视化工具 (SMBVT)，该工具允许用户在协作环境和可用的 Web 界面中创建故事地图。它是完全开源的，并作为免费使用的解决方案发布。它在后端系统中使用语义网技术，通过表示叙述的参考本体来表示故事。它建立了一个用户共享的语义知识库，自动互连所有故事并无缝地实现协作故事构建。最后，它在面向开放科学的电子基础设施内运行，该基础设施能够在叙述者社区内共享数据和信息，并添加多租户、多用户、安全和访问控制设施。 SMBVT 将叙事表示为通过语义关系相关的时空事件网络，并通过将国际化资源标识符 (IRI) 分配给事件组件（即参与事件的实体（例如，人、物体、地点、概念）。该工具自动将收集到的知识保存为网络本体语言（OWL）图，并将其作为链接开放数据公开发布。此功能允许将故事事件连接到其他知识库。为了评估和演示我们的工具，我们用它来描述托斯卡纳（意大利）的阿普安阿尔卑斯山地区。根据用户测试评估，我们评估了该工具在构建故事地图方面的有效性以及所生成的故事描述地图之外的领域的能力。