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Case study

The Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection compiles over 5,000 works by people who have experienced war, combatants and noncombatants alike. Included in the collection are printed and manuscript works by men and women from many countries whose lives were touched by armed conflicts.

Research questions

• Minimum number of properties to define classes and properties in a local Wikibase instance?
• Aligning a local Wikibase datamodel with already existing ontologies?
• Performing federated searches using local data and external web services such as Wikidata?
• Integrating a local Wikibase instance with other existing systems such as the Library Catalog?

Project decisions

Ontology alignment

Property	ID	Data type	Scope	Ontology alignment	WD match
equivalent class	P2	URL	equivalent class in other ontologies	owl:equivalentClass	P1709
equivalent property	P3	URL	equivalent property in other ontologies	owl:equivalentProperty	P1628

Concept alignment

Property	ID	Data type	Scope	Ontology alignment	WD match
exact match	P4	URL	URL used to link two items or properties, indicating a high degree of confidence that the concepts can be used interchangeably	skos:exactMatch	P2888
close match	P5	URL	URL used to link two items, indicating they are sufficiently similar that they can be used interchangeably in many applications and schemes	skos:closeMatch	n/a

Data model

• wikiWARP data model
• List of properties
• List of contributors

Inspiration

• NFDI4Culture
• WarSampo Portal

Exploring wikiWARP

• [Sample query]

Indexes

• [List of people]
• [List of countries]
• [List of conflicts]
• [List of works]
• [List of instances]

Resources

• Harry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection
• An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection
• Echenberg War Poetry collection in the UT Library Catalog