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                                  Preface


    This volume of proceedings collects the papers presented at the 2nd Workshop
on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe II), which was held on October 22,
2017 during the 16th International Semantic Web Conference in Vienna, Austria.
    Cataloguing and curating digital collections is one of the core tasks of many
disciplines in Digital Humanities, which very often cannot rely on the same
vast amounts of data generated en masse as in other fields of data science.
Large digital libraries and content aggregators in cultural heritage have largely
demonstrated the potential of semantic technologies in these fields. However, the
research landscape of the Humanities has seen the emergence of a multitude of
potential application domains for Linked Data management techniques and Web
ontologies, including the production of gazetteers and other concept schemes,
annotated historical corpora, and even digital preservation of intangible culture,
such as music and performing arts. It was postulated that these research strands
had been seeing little exposure outside the scientific symposia in the Humanities
and comparatively lower recognition from publications in the Semantic Web.
    Owing to the excellent response of the first edition, WHiSe II was once again
co-located with a major international conference in Computer Science. The va-
riety of topics covered by submitted papers confirmed the above assumptions to
an extent, and reiterated the need for the workshop to broaden its scope even
further. Similarly, the continued feedback received by the workshop by new and
returning contributors also re-stated the importance of maintaining a live and
smooth communication challenge between the two communities.
    The workshop programme consisted entirely of presentations of thoroughly
peer-reviewed papers over a full day. Of the sixteen submissions originally re-
ceived by WHiSe II, thirteen were accepted and are presented in this volume,
comprising seven full papers of mature research and six short papers of early re-
search, visions and positions. The program committee was expanded from WHiSe
I to include more international researchers in the Humanities.
    Whereas the first edition of WHiSe partly focused on ongoing efforts to estab-
lish research networks, detect synergies and define ecosystems for the adoption
of semantics in Digital Humanities, the topics of submitted papers to WHiSe II
covered more applied research in disparate fields such as classics, iconography,
music preservation and musicology. Evolutions of previously presented work on
cultural heritage, as well as in digital biography and prosopography, cemented
the role of WHiSe as a scientific forum through which to follow the evolution
of niche application domains of the Semantic Web in long-established academic
disciplines.
    The editors would like to thank all the authors for helping broaden the scope
of WHiSe through their contributions. Thanks are also due to the members of the
program committee, for ensuring a quality standard of the workshop program
through their reviews, and to the organisers of the ISWC 2017 conference for
their continued support with setting up the workshop.
2      A. Adamou, E. Daga and L. Isaksen (eds.)

Organising committee

Alessandro Adamou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Enrico Daga, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Leif Isaksen, Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, UK



Program committee
Elton Barker, The Open University
Francesca Benatti, The Open University
Gabriel Bodard, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Marilena Daquino, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
David De Roure, University of Oxford
György Fazekas, Queen Mary University of London
Benjamin Fields, Goldsmiths University of London
Elena González-Blanco, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Ethan Gruber, American Numismatic Society
Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow
Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Albert Meroño Peñuela, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sarah Middle, The Open University
Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Mulholland, The Open University
Kevin R. Page, University of Oxford
Michele Pasin, Springer Nature
Silvio Peroni, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Davide Picca, University of Lausanne
Mia Ridge, The British Library
Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
Konstantin Todorov, University of Montpellier
Francesca Tomasi, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Franois Vignale, Université du Maine