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Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies Gabriel Bodard K. Faith Lawrence (Kings College London) Project history Bringing people together Prior art: Pelagios Data Model Creating SNAP URIs Technical Issues -

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Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies

Gabriel Bodard

K. Faith Lawrence

(King’s College London)

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Project history
Bringing people together
Prior art: Pelagios
Data Model
Creating SNAP URIs
Technical Issues - Storage
Methodological Issues – Merging
SNAP Online
Into the future…

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Digital Classicist wiki

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LAWDI

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Bringing People Together

King’s College London

○ Gabriel Bodard ○ Faith Lawrence

Duke, Hugh Cayless (Papyri.info)
Leuven, Mark Depauw (Trismegistos)
Oxford, Sebastian Rahtz (LGPN)
Southampton, Leif Isaksen (Pelagios)

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The ancient geography model

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The ancient geography model

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The ancient geography model

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The “Pleiades part”

No single authority “Pleiades” for ancient people
Not feasible to create brand new authority
Linked Data doesn’t require single silo
Many existing authorities

○ LGPN, Trismegistos, PIR ○ PBE/PBW, Smith, Hellenistic Babylonia, RIB, Syriac, Nomisma, Kerameikos ○ Perseus Catalog, VIAF, BM persons, Zenon catalog

Get them into RDF

○ uris, properties, relationships ○ co-references

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The “Pelagios part”

1. Enable and encourage linking to persons
2. Enable and encourage linking between datasets
3. Internal relationships:
a. person:1234 snap:hasBond <xyz> .

<xyz> rdf:type snap:DaughterOf ; snap:bondWith person:7890 .

4. Unproblematic co-references:
a. person:200000 rdf:type snap:mergedResource ;

dcterms:replaces person:12345 ; dcterms:replaces person 67005 .

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The Technical Bit

But not too technical...

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Data Model (Reuse is Good)

Lawd
Prov
Foaf
Bibo
Rdf
Rdfs
Cnt
Dct

Our Ontology

Snap

http://onto.snapdrgn.net (Relationships)

Existing Ontologies

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Persons

Model centers around lawd:Person
Main classes provided by lawd
Snap ontology provides relationship

links between Persons

Separation between Publisher and

Collection

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Minting URIs

Person Data Project URI

Ingestion

Person Data Project URI SNAP URI Person Data Project URI

XSLT Script Re-Ingestion

Person Data Project URI SNAP URI

SPARQL Query

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Storage

Attempt #1 – Sesame
Attempt #2 – 4Store
Currently 673, 982 Persons (+ associated data)
Ingested
Datasets: PIR, LGPN, TM BM, VIAF (1 - 673754)
Merged records: LPGN/PIR (not finalised)

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Merging Persons

SNAP URI Person Data Project URI SNAP URI Person Data Project URI

SNAP URI dct:replaces

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Human-Readable Resource

http://data.snapdrgn.net/person/<id>
Current Breakdown of Person IDs:
PIR: 1 - 10924
TM: 10925 - 367917
LPGN: 367918 – 671019
BM: 671020 - 671972
VIAF: 671973 - 673753
Test Merged (LGPN & PIR): 673754 – 673934

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Data Out

Public Endpoint (Human) :

https://snap.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/query/

Public Endpoint (Computer):

https://snap.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/sparql/

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Coming Soon(ish)

Polish Person Profile pages
Add Project and Collection pages
Add search pages
by project-minted identifier
by place
by name (string)
by citation reference...
More Merged Persons

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SNAP:DRGN 2

To merge or not to merge..?
Adding in the description of scholarly disagreement
n merging e.g

V5a-38858 claims to be both pir2-r-0243 and pir2- r-0244 V5a-38861 claims to be both pir2-i-0492 and pir2- i-0493