Well, people, thanks for all the information! A deity-aggregating service
is obviously, or at least hopefully, in the air. I have taken the liberty
of compiling the suggestions to a page of the DC wiki:
<http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Catalog-of-deities>.
Personal experiences:
LIMC is a bit intimidating at first, but, once one gets to the database,
it promises access to a wealth of material.
Theoi.org is nice (especially the charts), in a somewhat highschool sort
of way (no offence meant), and without any RDF or machine-actionable
actions on its mind; I am also not sure whether it is still actively
maintained.
I'm not enough of a hacker to make sense of DBpedia -- they manage to hide
the fact that there are other YAGO classes besides "European capitals" and
"Birds of the US" -- a manual is sorely needed (I learned a lot from
Ethan's script and Tom's findings, though).
This has been interesting -- and I hope the SNAP:DRGN finds a place for
deities on its agenda.
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic
Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia
> Ethan:
>
> I’ve done some quick spot-checking and unfortunately I don’t see
> familial relationships in the dbpedia data. There are some other
> interesting things though like:
>
> (for Jupiter):
>
> is dbpprop:characters of
> • dbpedia:Amphitryon_(play)
>
>
> is dbpprop:romanEquivalent of
> • dbpedia:Zeus
>
>
> (for Mercury):
>
>
> dcterms:subject
> • category:Death_gods
> • category:Deities
> • category:Messenger_gods
> • category:Roman_gods
> • category:Commerce_gods
> • category:Gods
> • category:Trickster_gods
> • category:Deities_in_the_Aeneid
> • category:Gods_depicted_by_Ovid
> • category:Gods_depicted_by_Virgil
> rdf:type
> • yago:Cognition100023271
> • yago:Content105809192
> • yago:Deity109505418
> • yago:DeitiesInTheAeneid
> • yago:PsychologicalFeature100023100
> • yago:Abstraction100002137
> • yago:Belief105941423
> • yago:SpiritualBeing109504135
>
>
>
> 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 9:09 AM, 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
>>>
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>>>
>>
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