Political Roles Ontology (PRoles): Enhancing Archival Authority Records through Semantic Web Technologies

In this paper we present the Political Roles (PRoles) ontology, an OWL 2 DL ontology for the description of political relationships between persons. Building upon existing ontological models, such as the Publishing Roles Ontology (PRO), the Provenance Ontology (PROV-O) and the N-ary Participation ontology design pattern, PRoles provides a clear ontological characterisation of political roles and related events, establishing a link between the description of such concepts and the documents from which this information is distilled.