the roman imperial social network and other things

The Roman Imperial Social Networkand other things

Ethan GruberAmerican Numismatic Societygruber@numismatics.org@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