The Roman Imperial Social Networkand other things
Ethan GruberAmerican Numismatic [email protected]@ewg118
1. http://nomisma.org
http://nomisma.org/id/augustus
VIAF, Getty, BM, DBpedia
SPARQL
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>PREFIX nm: <http://nomisma.org/id/>PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>SELECT ?object ?findspot ?lat ?long ?title WHERE {?type nm:authority nm:augustus .?object nm:type_series_item ?type ; nm:findspot ?findspot .?findspot geo:lat ?lat ; geo:long ?long .OPTIONAL {?object dcterms:title ?title}}
2. http://kerameikos.org
VIAF, Getty, DBpedia, BM, LGPN, etc.
Extract owl:sameAs conceptsdirectly from VIAF(e.g., BnF, GND)
3. Roman Imperial Social Network (RISN)
Tom Elliott's Emperors CSV Nomisma Emperors CSV
DBpedia
PHP*
*https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC/blob/master/tools/dbpedia-to-eac.php
EAC-CPF XML Stubs
PIR RDF
EAC-CPF: Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families
Name authority Biographical information Related entities Related resources Other LOD Identifiers
http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
Creating, editing, and publishing EAC-CPF with xEAC
XForms web applications: https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC
http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/id/alexander_the_great
otherRecordId: http://nomisma.org/id/augustus
SPARQL: RDF query for related objects
The Challenge: Maintaining Relationships
*Now able to handle import/parse of RDF ontologies
Create Stub
Create relationship toexisting EAC-CPF record
<foaf:Person rdf:about="http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/id/alexander_the_great"> <skos:altLabel>Alexander the Great</skos:altLabel> <skos:altLabel xml:lang="ja">アレクサンドロス 3 世 </skos:altLabel> <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Alexander the Great</skos:prefLabel> <skos:altLabel xml:lang="nl">Alexander de Grote</skos:altLabel> <skos:altLabel xml:lang="de">Alexander der Große</skos:altLabel> <skos:altLabel xml:lang="es">Alejandro Magno</skos:altLabel> <skos:related rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alexander_the_Great"/> <my:childOf xmlns:my="http://example.org/my#" rdf:resource="http://admin.numismatics.org/xeac/id/philip_ii_of_macedon"/> </foaf:Person>
Export: RDF and TEI
Next Steps
Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes
Test for scalability
Interface with more APIs
Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing
Incorporate SPARQL endpoint for social network graph visualizations
Follow evolving best practices in RDF/linked open data
Next Steps
Finish form: Represent all EAC-CPF elements and attributes
Test for scalability
Interface with more APIs
Improve public interface, especially searching and browsing
Incorporate SPARQL endpoint for social network graph visualizations
Follow evolving best practices in RDF/linked open data