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Authors and contributors to the CWRC ontologies.

CWRC Ontology

Authors

Susan Brown. University of Guelph. Director of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. Responsible for overall ontology direction and contributor of much of the preamble and some definitions.

Joel Cummings. 2017-2019. Responsible for technical work on the ontology and making key design decisions to support extraction from a variety of sources.

Jasmine Drudge-Willson. University of Guelph. Research Assistant 2018-19 and Contributor 2021-22. Responsible for researching epistemologies and their relationship to ontologies.

Colin Faulkner. University of Guelph. Undergraduate student. Assisted with production of early instance data, particularly religion and political affiliation. Summer 2017.

Amelia Flynn. University of Guelph. Undergraduate Research Assistant 2024-25. Assisted with update of CWRC Linked Data website.

Abigel Lemak. University of Guelph. PhD student 2017-2021. Assisted with project management and did much of the work drafting the ontology and translating from Orlando.

Kim Martin. University of Guelph 2018-2020. Responsible for sample data for testing accuracy of extraction and testing data with HuViz. Assisted with project management.

Martha Matsui. University of Guelph. Undergraduate Research Assistant Summer 2025-. Assisted with review and revision of the CWRC ontology and the CWRC Linked Data website.

Alliyya Mo. University of Guelph. Co-op student and Research Assistant 2017-2020, and Contributor and project manager 2020- . Wrote the extraction scripts for cultural form extraction and much of the rest of the biography data. Minted instance data for cultural forms, genres, religions, political affiliations. Responsible also for much ontology refinement reflecting the extraction process.

Laiba Mustafa. University of Guelph. Co-op student Summer 2019. Helped write SPARQL queries and document their construction for the website. Helped with diagram revision for documentation. Developed test queries for quality assurance processes.

Kiera Obbard. University of Guelph. Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities. Reviewed and revised the CWRC ontology, and updated the CWRC Linked Data website.

Jade Penancier. University of Guelph. Crossways MA program. Graduate Research Assistant Winter 2018. French translations throughout. Collaborator in the Cultural Forms portion of the ontology.

Michaela Rye. University of Guelph. Undergraduate student Summer 2019-20. Assisted with converting instance data into biography terms, particularly occupation and subjects of study.

John Simpson. University of Alberta. Postdoctoral Fellow. Early ontology development and data extraction. Collaborator in the design of HuViz.

Gurjap Singh. University of Guelph. Co-op student Summer 2018. Responsible for initial extraction of birth, death, family data from Orlando data. Queried Geonames API to get URIs for locations in Orlando.

Deborah Stacey. University of Guelph. Helped coordinate the process. Wrote scripts for extracting cause of death and health triples. 2017- .

Thomas Smith. University of Guelph. Undergraduate student Summer 2019-21. Assisted with converting instance data into vocabulary terms, particularly occupations, as well as with reconciling place data.

Hannah Stewart. University of Guelph. Undergraduate Research Assistant. Supported ontology modelling.

Robert Warren. Responsible for overseeing technical work on ontology in its early stages and making key initial technical decisions to Fall 2017.

Contributors and Consultants

Carolyn Black. Bucknell University.

Constance Crompton. University of Ottawa.

Diane Jakacki. Bucknell University.

Rob Sanderson. J. Paul Getty Trust.

Members of the Orlando Project. Devised the SGML, later XML, tagset on which the ontology has been in large part based. Key participants: Katherine Binhammer, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Susan Fisher, Isobel Grundy, and Susan Hockey.

Genre Ontology

Authors

Susan Brown. University of Guelph. Project lead. Term definition. Taxonomy structure.

Joel Cummings. Participated in high-level design decisions.

Jasmine Drudge-Willson. University of Guelph. Taxonomic structure.

Micaela Jimenez. University of Guelph. Responsible for researching and in some cases drafting terms.

Abigel Lemak. University of Guelph. PhD student 2017-2021. Taxonomic structure and reconciliation with CWRC vocabulary.

Kim Martin. Taxonomic structure.

Alliyya Mo. University of Guelph. Technical production.

Jade Penancier. University of Guelph/Crossways. Translations.

Michaela Rye. University of Guelph. Undergraduate student Summer 2019-2020. Assisted with genre ontology.

Deborah Stacey. University of Guelph. Participated in high-level design decisions. http://ontology.socs.uoguelph.ca/

Hannah Stewart. University of Guelph. Undergraduate Research Assistant August 2021-December 2021.. Drafted genre definitions.

Robert Warren. Oversight of technical work on ontology in its early stages including key initial technical decisions to Fall 2017.

Contributors and Consultants

Carolyn Black. Bucknell University.

Diane Jakacki. Bucknell University.

Kiera Obbard. University of Guelph. Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities. Reviewed and revised the Genre ontology, and updated the CWRC Linked Data website.

Members of the Orlando Project. Devised the SGML, later XML, tagset on which the ontology has been in large part based. Key participants: Katherine Binhammer, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Susan Fisher, Isobel Grundy, and Susan Hockey.

II (Illnesses and Injuries) Ontology

Authors and Consultants

Deborah Stacey. University of Guelph. Primary author.

Susan Brown. University of Guelph. Project lead. Consultation.

Joel Cummings. Consultation.

Jasmine Drudge-Willson University of Guelph. Consultation.

Abigel Lemak. University of Guelph. PhD student 2017-2021. Consultation.

Kim Martin. Consultation.

Alliyya Mo. University of Guelph. Technical production.

Kiera Obbard. University of Guelph. Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities. Reviewed and helped with revisions to the II ontology, and updated the CWRC Linked Data website.

Members of the Orlando Project. Devised the SGML, later XML, tagset on which the ontology has been in large part based. Key participants: Katherine Binhammer, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Susan Fisher, Isobel Grundy, and Susan Hockey.