Towards the representation of claims in ontologies for the digital humanities

Knowledge and data in the human sciences are sometimes expressed in hypothetical or even incompatible terms. One wonders therefore how to make sense of them in ontological modeling frameworks. Accordingly, we present in the paper some preliminary ideas to make ontologies for the Digital Humanities able to deal with hypothetical and incompatible scholarly statements, which we call claims. Our proposal builds on existing works in the state of the art. The results are still preliminary; the contribution is more on the definition of the problem and identification of the challenges rather than on the modeling itself, therefore future work to strengthen our proposal is necessary.