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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 >>>> >>>> Digital Humanities >>>> King's College London >>>> Boris Karloff Building >>>> 26-29 Drury Lane >>>> London WC2B 5RL >>>> >>>> T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 >>>> E: [log in to unmask] >>>> >>>> http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ >>>> http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>