Hey, there’s a list policy against posting from the pub, right? ;)
Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Leif Isaksen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> holy:Father
> owl:sameAs holy:Son ;
> owl:sameAs holy:Ghost .
>
> No, wait...
>
> ;-)
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> If deities contain the same sorts of relationships that people do, I've
>> already written a PHP script that crawls dbpedia to create EAC-CPF records
>> for people and families/dynasties. It will even pull in VIAF ids, when
>> available.
>> https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC/blob/master/tools/dbpedia-to-eac.php
>>
>> I think someone has also ported this into Ruby.
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW, I’d have thought there are categories on Wikipedia that could be
>>> pretty quickly mined to get a starting set of DBPEDIA URIs for deities
>>> around which additions, corrections, and supplements could be arranged.
>>> Something similar to the dataset I built for Roman emperors:
>>> http://www.paregorios.org/resources/roman-emperors/
>>>
>>> Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar
>>> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
>>> http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the chairs of the linked data session at Computer Applications in
>>> Archaeology is working on LIMC, so my guess is that the project may be
>>> moving in the LOD direction. It would be tremendously useful to aggregate
>>> content based on deity.
>>>
>>> Ethan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Gabriel Bodard <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Neven,
>>>>
>>>> This isn't currently a solution to your problem, but you should know that
>>>> a recently funded projected called SNAP:DRGN (Standards for Networking
>>>> Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-roman Names) will this
>>>> year aim to (a) propose recommendations for linking together multiple
>>>> classical person-databases into a single web of linked data, parallel to the
>>>> Pleiades and Pelagios projects, and (b) help to produce RDF and stable URIs
>>>> for the persons, names and other person-like entities in as many digital
>>>> resources as possible so that the sort of linking you are envisaging will
>>>> become possible.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure that any of our candidate datasets currently include
>>>> deities, but I see no reason why such "people" should not be handled in the
>>>> same standards and meta-corpus of names.
>>>>
>>>> More information on this project will be posted to this list when we have
>>>> a formal announcement. In the meantime, please keep the suggestions of
>>>> authorities for divinities coming; that's useful information.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Gabby
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-01-17 12:01, "Neven Jovanović" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello digital classicists,
>>>>>
>>>>> is there a usable (and citable) catalog of "persons" such as deities,
>>>>> from
>>>>> antiquity (or otherwise), in the vein of the Perseus Catalog or
>>>>> Pleiades,
>>>>> or VIAF or Semium or Geonames?
>>>>>
>>>>> If we want to have editions as arguments and encoding as interpretation,
>>>>> we need to be able to tag "Apollo", "Hercules", or "Bavius" in a text
>>>>> and
>>>>> refer to their unique and standard identification somewhere (humor me
>>>>> and
>>>>> allow that there can be a unique ID for Apollo, in the same way there
>>>>> can
>>>>> be one for New York, or Shakespeare).
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Neven
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Neven Jovanovic
>>>>> Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr Gabriel BODARD
>>>> Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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