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Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies
Gabriel Bodard K. Faith Lawrence
(King’s College London)
● Project history ● Bringing people together ● Prior art: Pelagios ● Data Model ● Creating SNAP URIs ● Technical Issues - Storage ● Methodological Issues – Merging ● SNAP Online ● Into the future…
Digital Classicist wiki
LAWDI
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)
The ancient geography model
The ancient geography model
The ancient geography model
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
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 .
The Technical Bit
But not too technical...
Data Model (Reuse is Good)
• Lawd
• Prov
• Foaf
• Bibo
• Rdf
• Rdfs
• Cnt
• Dct
Our Ontology
• Snap
http://onto.snapdrgn.net
(Relationships)
Existing Ontologies
Persons
● Model centers around lawd:Person
● Main classes provided by lawd
● Snap ontology provides relationship
links between Persons
● Separation between Publisher and
Collection
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
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)
Merging Persons
SNAP URI
Person Data
Project URI
SNAP URI
Person Data
Project URI
SNAP URI
dct:replaces
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
Data Out • Public Endpoint (Human) :
https://snap.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/query/
• Public Endpoint (Computer):
https://snap.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/sparql/
Coming Soon(ish)
● Polish Person Profile pages ● Add Project and Collection pages ● Add search pages
o by project-minted identifier o by place o by name (string) o by citation reference...
● More Merged Persons
SNAP:DRGN 2
● To merge or not to merge..? o Adding in the description of scholarly disagreement
on 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