LOAD - Linked Open Archaeological Data
A semi-structured proposal for the dissemination of archaeological data on the web. This is currently targeted at publishing a dataset of Late Roman ceramics that is already implemented through a Django app. app (available at <http://bitbucket.org/steko/thesis-app>).
Basics
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- RDFa
- BIBO for bibliographic references (can be exported by Zotero)
- Pleiades and GeoNames for geospatial references to ancient places, together with plain coordinates
- OpenVocab for African Red Slip Ware
- ArchVocab Excavation ontology for excavation, contexts and quantification. I created an ArchVocab-like ontology for finewares and another one by Sebastian Heath
- DBPedia for general references where viable
Links
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- <http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001868.html> Marking up a bibliographic reference with RDFa
- <http://mediterraneanceramics.blogspot.com/2010/01/rdfa-patterns-for-ancient-world.html> RDFa Patterns for Ancient World References
- <http://mediterraneanceramics.blogspot.com/2010/01/referring-to-people-and-places.html> Referring to People and Places
- <http://github.com/bdarcus/citeproc-py> A python implementation of CSL
- <http://pleiades.stoa.org/>
- <http://nomisma.org/>
- <http://www.archvocab.net/>
- <http://open.vocab.org/docs/AfricanRedSlip>
- <http://dbpedia.org/page/African_red_slip>
- <http://mediterraneanceramics.org/typology:ars>
- <http://bitbucket.org/steko/archvocab-finewares>
- <http://www.geonames.org/ontology/>
- <http://classics.uc.edu/troy/grbpottery/index.html> Greek, Roman and Byzantine Pottery at Ilion (Troia)
Task list
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- ask Sean Gillies and Tom Elliott about using Pleiades
- ask Leif Isaksen about ArchVocab and typology vocabularies
- ask Sebastian Heath general advice
Open questions
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- Linked to what, in general/epistemological terms?
- Does this scale for larger research projects/teams/timespans?
- Will be someone consuming these data?