I think this is a great initiative Gabbi, and I am in. I think it is much needed for research and education alike.
Dr Anna Foka
Associate Senior Lecturer
HUMlab
Umeċ University
SE-901 87 Umeċ, Sweden
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On 09 Jul 2014, at 13:10, Gabriel Bodard <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear all,
In a discussion on prosopography and classics at the DH2014 conference
in Lausanne this week, I was asked, "Is there a place to go for a
historian like me to learn what authorities/vocabularies we should
use, e.g. for places, for people, for object types?" My first thought
was that we should create such a page in the Digital Classicist wiki,
but a quick search returned this page, which I had forgotten about:
<http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/RDF_vocabularies_for_classicists>,
which seems to be a good start at what we were looking for. A couple
of questions for the list:
1. If this list is, or could be expanded to be, a general list of
vocabularies, do we need the term "RDF" in the title? (Even though
many of the entries will be at least partly represented in RDF.)
2. Would you be willing to help us populate this list with more links
to resources, standards, ontologies and other authorities?
3. If you think this would be useful (and the appropriate venue) would
you like to add sections and structure to this document that you would
like to see populated with more vocabularies, even if you do not know
what they are yet? (I have started this task with a couple of lists of
kinds of vocabulary I think would be usefultext and object data
[category, material, object type], and person data [occupations,
relationships].)
4. One we have started to populate this with everything we know about
or can find out, it might be interesting to see where the gaps are,
and this might even suggest new projects for us to fill these gaps.
5. Likewise, if competing thesauroi are identified (EAGLE and Getty
for object types, say) this might inspire initiatives to map between
these vocabularies and other, offline typologies.
This is all very ambitious for one email, maybe we could start by
discussing 1-3?
All best,
Gabby
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
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