Pelagios and the emerging graph of ancient world data

Isaksen, Leif; Simon, Rainer; Barker, Elton; Soto, Pau de

doi:10.1145/2615569.2615693

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“…But while JSON provides an easy and convenient way to work with the PeriodO dataset by itself, we knew that many users would want to combine it with the growing body of scholarly Linked Data being published on the Web. Most of our initial contributors of period definitions work in archaeology, a discipline that has several large, well-curated, interlinked, widely used and well-maintained Linked Data datasets (Isaksen et al, 2014). Thus, we take advantage of the recent W3C Recommendation of JSON-LD (Sporny, Kellogg & Lanthaler, 2014) to make the PeriodO dataset available as Linked Data.…”

Section: Periodo As Linked Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer

Golden

Shaw

2016

PeerJ Computer Science

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The information expressed in humanities datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of "nanopublication," which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal representations of humanities data and its discursive basis. In this paper we describe nanopublication, its potential applicability to the humanities, and our experience curating humanities nanopublications in the PeriodO period gazetteer.

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Section: Periodo As Linked Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer

Golden

Shaw

2016

PeerJ Computer Science

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“…Much of the linked data infrastructure used to connect Pleiades to other resources is facilitated or created by a project named Pelagios, 23 which is becoming increasingly useful as more resources take on their annotation model of marking up place names using Pleiades URIs and Pelagios ontologies. A succinct description of their work so far is at Isaksen et al (2014). More recently, the Pelagios project has entered a new phase of funding to develop Pelagios Commons, which attempts to support the growing community of scholars and technicians interested in creating Linked Open Data in classics.…”

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How are digital methods changing research in the study of the classical world? An EpiDoc case study.

Steiner

Mahony

2016

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Los Estudios Clásicos como disciplina siempre se han beneficiado del uso de la tecnología digital en la investigación, con proyectos que datan desde los años 70 e incluso de fechas anteriores. Este artículo examina la integración de los Estudios Clásicos y las nuevas tecnologías de la información y presenta un caso práctico en torno a EpiDoc, una lengua de marcado uso en epigrafía. Hay constancia de la influencia positiva de la introducción de EpiDoc: no solo cuenta con varios proyectos colaborativos en la actualidad sino que la naturaleza de su tecnología fomenta la investigación en abierto. Las inscripciones del proyecto de Aphrodisias son una muestra significativa del potencial de las publicaciones electrónicas basadas en este lenguaje. Aunque el efecto de EpiDoc en la propia investigación permanece todavía inconcluso, al contar con escasos ejemplos claros, hay una clara evidencia de las posibilidades de futuro que posee. La difusión de estas conclusiones a la amplia comunidad de humanidades digitales clásicas muestra una tendencia hacia la colaboración en publicaciones y proyectos recientes, así como una aceptación gradual de publicaciones electrónicas. Classics as a discipline has always taken advantage of digital methods in research, with projects dating back to the 1970s and earlier. This article examines the integration of classics and computing, and presents a case study of EpiDoc, a markup language used in epigraphy. Positive evidence can be found for EpiDoc’s influence on collaboration, with several current collaborative projects, and the nature of the technology encouraging open, reusable scholarship. The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project illustrates much of the potential of electronic publishing. EpiDoc’s effect on research questions themselves remains inconclusive, although definite possibilities for the future are apparent. Opening up these conclusions to the wider digital classics community shows a trend towards collaboration in recent publications and projects, as well as a gradual uptake of electronic publication.

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“…During each of the Moments, the URI interacts with one or more agents which are often part of a Social Machine such as a group of people and software tools deciding to agree that the URI identifies the same concept as another URI. One such example would be the context of the Pelagios project [9], where scholars contribute place names and geographical locations, along with the Ancient evidence for those, in order to map them in the Ancient World. The Moments below are general descriptions of Moments, some of which are followed by more specific examples.…”

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Archetypal Narratives in Social Machines

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Glaser

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Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference

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Introducing Social Machines as web-enabled entities integrating social energies and computational powers into a sociotechnical system (whether purposeful or not) where social dynamics animate communities, this paper proposes a theoretical framework in which to observe them. Attempting to strike a balance between the roles of humans and nonhumans, and aware of the difficulties that this heterogeneity presents, we propose to approach the questions of capturing the social dynamics of a social machine through prosopography. Prosopography is a method, used in particular by historians, that allows to systematically study a collection of biographies, be they of persons, artefacts, infrastructures of groups thereof. Systematization is achieved through designing an appropriate questionnaire to gather homogeneous data across the biographies. Our questionnaire design relies on the identification of five archetypal elements in biographical narratives. Illustrating our method with three examples, we demonstrate how our archetypal narratives have the potential to describe at least aspects of the social dynamics in social machines.

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Pelagios and the emerging graph of ancient world data

Cited by 41 publications

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Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer

Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer

How are digital methods changing research in the study of the classical world? An EpiDoc case study.

Archetypal Narratives in Social Machines

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