awesome-humanities-ontologies

provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation

an Extension of CIDOC-CRM to support argumentation

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The thesaurus consists of over 3,000 concepts and covers the core social science disciplines: politics, sociology, economics, education, law, crime, demography, health, employment, information and communication technology and, increasingly, environmental science.

linking people and information

for describing documents and their evolution

covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge

an ontology and RDF Schema to encode metadata about the archaeological excavation process (CIDOC-CRM extensnion)

proposal for structuring the data that Europeana will be ingesting, managing and publishing on museums, digital archives and digital libraries

an evolving vocabulary, growing and changing on art and architecture

a multilingual classification system for cultural content, the de facto global standard for subject classification

The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations.

Juso Ontology is a Web vocabulary for describing geographical addresses and features

Events, works, expressions around classic music data

for publishing MIDI pieces, tracks, events, and their attributes

provides main concepts and properties for describing music (i.e. artists, albums and tracks) on the Semantic Web

ontology for encoding music scores of western music

a comprehensive ontology of drama

a taxonomy of approximately 1,250 Latin labeled themes/motifs, categorized into six different areas: Animalia [Animals], Arbores et virentia [Trees and Plants], Homines [Men], Dei et heroes [Gods and Heroes], Loca [Places], and finally Res [Things]

For narrative and fiction, especially fan fiction

The Intertextual, Interpictorial, and Intermedial Relations Ontology - INTRO is an Intertextual Relationships Ontology for literary studies

A taxonomy of defined literary themes for thematically annotating works of fiction

For literary history

Lemon is a proposed model for modeling lexicon and machine-readable dictionaries and linked to the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud

brings information about languages, words, characters, and other human language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web