Philospace is a SWickyNotes and DBin based desktop application enabling users to browse Wittgenstein’s Nachlass using ontologies specially tailored for it. Philospace also functions as a personal notebook for Wittgenstein Nachlass research, allowing users to add notes and comments, as well as to share these with other users. It works together with WittgensteinSource which is freely available on the Web and houses 5000 pages of the Wittgenstein Nachlass. Both Philospace and Wittgenstein Source were produced in connection with the EU DISCOVERY project.
Philospace can be downloaded from here. To learn more about Philospace, read the user guide or go to the download section to try it out. For any questions about Philospace contact its authors: Christian Morbidoni and Michele Nucci.
The following ontologies are available for download:
- wittgenstein.owl (work in progress, last updated 24.11.2010): A beginning to an ontology for Wittgenstein. By: Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Christian Erbacher, Heinz Wilhelm Krueger, Alois Pichler,
Deirdre Smith), in cooperation with
Mark Addis (Univ. of Aarhus and Birmingham City University),
Steen Brock (Univ. of Aarhus),
James Matthew Fielding (Univ. of Paris I),
James Klagge (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA),
Christian Morbidoni (Univ. of Ancona),
Amélie Zöllner-Weber ("Figurenontologie").
Editor and coordinator: Alois Pichler (WAB).
The first version of this ontology was produced by WAB in cooperation with the consortium of the EU funded DISCOVERY project (2006-2009). Since 2010 international cooperation on the ontology work is extended. WAB's own metadata on Wittgenstein's references to persons and works are supplemented with Hans Biesenbach's "Anspielungen und Zitate in den Schriften Ludwig Wittgensteins" (2010).
An extension into a collaborative Web based ontology environment is intended. The ontology can be edited in ontology editors such as Protégé and installed in Semantic Web desktop applications such as Philospace.
Released under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike version 3 (CCPL BY-NC-SA).
- Other ontologies, tba.
For use with Philospace, install these ontologies in your local Philospace application.
For questions and comments write to Alois Pichler.
Last change: 2010.11.16 by ap |
