Chronological Concepts of the Ancient World in Linked Data - Roman - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rainer Komp Chronological Concepts of the Ancient World in Linked Data - Roman Consuls as Eponyms - Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 11. Februar 2014 Zentrale Berlin www.dainst.org

DAI Rainer Komp object TIME place person Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data intro

DAI Rainer Komp Delimitation ● primary sources ● secondary attributions ● year naming by eponyms ● Roman consuls ● technical infrastructure Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data delimitation

DAI Rainer Komp time reckoning ● calendar ● daily life ● agricultural cycle ● year counting ● administrative ● memory Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data chronology

DAI Rainer Komp *Eponymy 1 ● Assyria ● limmu; 30 year cycle Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data eponymy

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymy 2 ● Greece ● archon eponymous in Athens ● ephoros in Sparta ● priest of Helios in Rhodos ● olympiads Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data eponymy

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymy 3 ● Rome ● 2 yearly consuls ● fixed term, e.g. ● Lucio Cornelio Cnaeo Octavio consulibus ● auc (ab urbe condita / anno urbis conditae) Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data eponymy

DAI Rainer Komp Text Sources ● literature ● inscriptions ● all media, e.g. stone, ostraka, papyri, wooden tablets, wax tablets ● fasti consulares ● amphorae stamps ● coins Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data sources

DAI Rainer Komp Digital Resources ● literature ● amphorae stamps ● Perseus, (PHI) ● ??? ● inscriptions ● coins ● Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ... ● ANS, OCRE ● Vindolanda tablets ● EDH ● consular lists ● papyri.info ● wikipedia/dbpedia ● (EDR, EDB; EAGLE) ● prosopography ● GND, VIAF, ... Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data digital resources

DAI Rainer Komp Entity Detection Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data entity detection

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data metadata

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data metadata

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data text markup

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data coss

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data prosopography

DAI Rainer Komp Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data prosopography

DAI Rainer Komp Dual Approach ● linguistics ● Linked Data ● NLP ● authority for consuls (URI) ● entity detection ● prosopographical data ● entity disambiguation ● referenceable core data ● tagging ● contextualisation ● semantic classifying ● & referencing by URI Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data dual approach

DAI Rainer Komp Summary eponymous consuls as both chronological and person entity extensive machine assisted entity detection and markup supported by eponym terms consul lists Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data summary

DAI Rainer Komp Outcome blueprint for establishing authority instances for eponymous offices using stable URIs valid representation of original sources by tagging with links to enriched authorities machine actionable source data enhance contexts by linking data Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data outcome

DAI Rainer Komp More Challenges ● general ● office related phaenomena ● uncertainty ● other text genres ● fuzzy data ● further cultures / societies ● revisions ● Epitheta ● state of research/opinions ● other offices ● person names in their temporal aspect Eponymous Roman Consuls in Linked Data challenges

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