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Developing the ontological model for research and representation of Commemoration Speeches in Croatia using a graph property database

This paper demonstrates the ontological model of commemoration speeches given in Croatia that was developed as a part of the project "Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and the Cultural Memory of Twentieth Century Traumas". The research gathers linguistic, media and social data about seven commemoration practices connected to the wars of the 20th century using various methodologies involving audio-visual field recordings, transcription of commemoration speeches and the creation of a text corpus. This chapter presents digital humanities methods used to connect various levels of data analysis and digital resources, from natural language processing (NLP) of Croatian to conceptual enrichment through the processing of conceptual metaphors. These resources are integrated using the Neo4j database and the Python Py2Neo library for data manipulation of the ontological model that embeds the linguistic and media research in the context respectively of the social identity of actors, their interaction, institutional affiliations and cultural models they represent and express. The value of this ontological model is in fostering an interdisciplinary approach through the contextualization of data and targeted usage of digital resources.

Cultural memory, commemoration, textual analysis, monument representation, social ontology, complex system, graph database, Neo4j

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