The Port History Ontology
Résumé
This paper presents a reference ontology, called PHO (Port History Ontology) as an outcome of a multidisciplinary research project in the field of Digital Humanities (History of Science and Technology or HST) and knowledge engineering. The PHO ontology is mainly based on the HST-PORT model representing the spatio-temporal evolution of ports (from digital Humanities) and the specialization of the CIDOC-CRM ontology. To ensure genericity and reusability, our ontology relies on case studies in comparative history of the ports of Brest (France), Mar del Plata and Rosario (Argentina).