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Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Rainer Komp

Chronological Concepts of the Ancient World in

Linked Data

- Roman Consuls as Eponyms -

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin11. Februar 2014

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intro

placeTIME

object

person

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delimitation

Delimitation

● primary sources

● year naming by eponyms

● Roman consuls

● technical infrastructure

● secondary attributions

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chronology

time reckoning

● calendar

● daily life

● agricultural cycle

● year counting

● administrative

● memory

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eponymy

*Eponymy 1

● Assyria

● limmu; 30 year cycle

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eponymy

Eponymy 2

● Greece

● archon eponymous in Athens

● ephoros in Sparta

● priest of Helios in Rhodos

● olympiads

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eponymy

Eponymy 3

● Rome

● 2 yearly consuls

● fixed term, e.g.

● Lucio Cornelio Cnaeo Octavio consulibus

● auc (ab urbe condita / anno urbis conditae)

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sources

Text Sources

● literature

● inscriptions

● all media, e.g.

stone, ostraka, papyri, wooden tablets, wax tablets

● fasti consulares

● amphorae stamps

● coins

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digital resources

Digital Resources

● literature

● Perseus, (PHI)

● inscriptions

● Inscriptions of Aphrodisias ...

● Vindolanda tablets

● EDH

● papyri.info

● (EDR, EDB; EAGLE)

● amphorae stamps

● ???

● coins

● ANS, OCRE

● consular lists

● wikipedia/dbpedia

● prosopography

● GND, VIAF, ...

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entity detection

Entity Detection

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metadata

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metadata

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text markup

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coss

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prosopography

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prosopography

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dual approach

Dual Approach

● linguistics

● NLP

● entity detection

● entity disambiguation

● tagging

● semantic classifying

● & referencing by URI

● Linked Data

● authority for consuls (URI)

● prosopographical data

● referenceable core data

● contextualisation

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summary

Summary

eponymous consuls as both chronological and

person entity

extensive machine assisted entity detection

and markup supported by

eponym terms

consul lists

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outcome

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

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challenges

More Challenges

● office related phaenomena

● other text genres

● further cultures / societies

● Epitheta

● other offices

● person names

in their temporal aspect

● general

● uncertainty

● fuzzy data

● revisions

● state of research/opinions

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Thank you for listening.