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Data Model
The Attic Law Database draws from five ontologies: the Legal Processes ontoterminology, the Legal Bodies ontoterminology, the Legal Participants ontoterminology, the Oratory Corpus ontoterminology, and the Attic Law Ontology.
The Attic Law Ontology was built in Protégé as a standard OWL ontology, while the four ontoterminologies are built in TEDI, the Ontoterminology Editor, and therefore use the OTV vocabulary.
An ontoterminology is a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology (Roche, 2012). In an ontoterminology, the conceptual dimension (concepts, objects) and the linguistic dimension (terms, proper names) are linked.
In addition to the five ontologies, the Attic Oratory Database uses web standards such as the Web Annotation Data Model and TEI-XML to store standoff annotations. Annotations of person references are stored as Web Annotations, linked back to the texts stored in TEI-XML through XPath selectors.
To learn more about each data model, navigate to their unique pages: