Ontology-Based Knowledge Management of Chinese Historical Official Titles: An Overview of the Hotkb Project

Abstract

Knowledge of Chinese historical official titles is stored in paper or in electronic image, and the representations are based on nature language, which is more ambiguous than formal one. So, it is difficult to retrieve and disseminate. This paper reports a method to build a knowledge base that can provide a sharable and reusable knowledge resource about Chinese historical official titles. Consider the complexity of history domain and the ill-structured representation of historical knowledge, this paper proposes an ontology-based method for building knowledge base of HOT firstly, and then details the process of constructing the HOT ontology which is a skeleton of HOTKB. Ontology-based HOT knowledge management facilitates the knowledge retrieval and design to provide personalized knowledge services.