Dear MCGers,
via the Humanist mailing list, an event for those of you interested in (or
sceptical about) linked open data and/or authority files from collections
and content management systems...
Cheers, Mia
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:03:29 +0000
From: "Vitale, Valeria" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Linking Ancient People, Places, Objects and Texts. A round
table discussion
Dear all,
we are delighted to invite you to:
Linking Ancient People, Places, Objects and Texts
a round table discussion
Gabriel Bodard (KCL), Daniel Pett (British Museum), Humphrey Southall
(Portsmouth), Charlotte Tupman (KCL); with response by Eleanor Robson (UCL)
18:00, Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Anatomy Museum, Strand Building 6th Floor
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/download/KBLevel6forweb.pdf)
King's College London, Strand London WC2R 2LS
As classicists and ancient historians have become increasingly reliant on
large online research tools over recent years, it has become ever more
imperative to find ways of integrating those tools. Linked Open Data (LOD)
has the potential to leverage both the connectivity, accessibility and
universal standards of the Web, and the power, structure and semantics of
relational data. This potential is being used by several scholars and
projects in the area of ancient world and historical studies. The SNAP:DRGN
project (snapdrgn.net) is using LOD to bring together many technically
varied databases and authorities lists of ancient persons into a single
virtual authority file; the Pleiades gazetteer and service projects such as
Pelagios and PastPlace are creating open vocabularies for historical places
and networks of references to them. Museums and other heritage institutions
are at the forefront of work to encode semantic archaeological and material
culture data, and projects such as Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (
ancientwisdoms.ac.uk) and the Homer Multitext (homermultitext.org) are
developing citation protocols and an ontology for relating texts with
variants, translations and influences.
The panel will introduce some of these key projects and concepts, and then
the audience will be invited to participate in open discussion of the
issues and potentials of Linked Ancient World Data.
We hope to see you there.
Cheers,
Valeria
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Valeria Vitale
PhD Student
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities
26-29 Drury Lane WC2B 5RL London UK
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