Despite my frivolity I think this would be a great initiative. And
"It would be tremendously useful to aggregate content based on deity"
was born to be tweeted :-)
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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>
>
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>> Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
>>>>>
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>>>>> http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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