About 120 shapes have been created or updated in Kerameikos.org through the spreadsheet import mechanism that transforms Google spreadsheets into SKOS-based RDF following the same principles in Nomisma.org.
These new concepts were initially derived from a CSV download of shapes available in the Beazley Archive Pottery Database at Oxford University. After some initial cleanup to remove items we decided were not in-scope for this phase of the project (Archaic and Classical Greek concepts) or represented vase fragments rather than distinct intellectual concepts, the spreadsheet went through a round of OpenRefine reconciliation in order to link these new Kerameikos URIs to as many Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, British Museum, and Wikidata URIs as possible. Additionally, we included the Greek plural (with the lexinfo ontology), when applicable. The shapes are linked hierarchically with skos:broader.
Nearly all of the shapes should have at least one reference to a Zenon bibliographic URI, the catalog of the German Archaeological Institute. Some extremely rare shapes may have several Zenon references.
The definitions were authored by UVA Classical Archaeology graduate students, Abigail Bradford and Najee Olya.
I will be requesting the DataCite metadata to be submitted by the University of Virginia Library tomorrow in order to mint DOIs for each editor's contribution.
We hope to be able to publish these shapes with German and Greek preferred labels and definitions soon!
This is the first of many major Concept updates to be posted over the next 6-12 months during the course of our NEH-funded Linked Open Data project.
These new concepts were initially derived from a CSV download of shapes available in the Beazley Archive Pottery Database at Oxford University. After some initial cleanup to remove items we decided were not in-scope for this phase of the project (Archaic and Classical Greek concepts) or represented vase fragments rather than distinct intellectual concepts, the spreadsheet went through a round of OpenRefine reconciliation in order to link these new Kerameikos URIs to as many Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, British Museum, and Wikidata URIs as possible. Additionally, we included the Greek plural (with the lexinfo ontology), when applicable. The shapes are linked hierarchically with skos:broader.
Nearly all of the shapes should have at least one reference to a Zenon bibliographic URI, the catalog of the German Archaeological Institute. Some extremely rare shapes may have several Zenon references.
The definitions were authored by UVA Classical Archaeology graduate students, Abigail Bradford and Najee Olya.
I will be requesting the DataCite metadata to be submitted by the University of Virginia Library tomorrow in order to mint DOIs for each editor's contribution.
We hope to be able to publish these shapes with German and Greek preferred labels and definitions soon!
This is the first of many major Concept updates to be posted over the next 6-12 months during the course of our NEH-funded Linked Open Data project.
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