Ontological support for integration computer tools in digital humanities research

As knowledge embedded in literary texts is often expressed in informal and implicit ways, in recent years the field of digital humanities has witnessed the emergence of many tools designed to support text analysis and creation of digital editions.However, these tools operate on heterogeneous, differently structured data coming from various sources.The integration of existing tools, which would allow for creating an effective system dedicated to international cooperation in the field of literary research, can be supported by the ontological approach.Therefore in this paper the concept of the ontology dedicated for reasoning about literary text properties, is presented.The formal representation of knowledge embedded in text together with its syntactic and semantic schema facilitates heterogeneous data integration and helps to bridge the semantic gap across various editorial projects.