Linking Angels through the Cloud
Syriaca.org: A Short Introduction
Daniel L. Schwartz, Texas A&M
David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt
Core entities (categories of historical analysis):
Places, Persons, Works (Primary Source Texts), Citations (Bibliographic Items), Factoids (Events), Ontology (Keyword Classification), Manuscripts, Artifacts
Places
Persons
Works (Primary Source Texts)
Citations (Bibliographic Items)
Factoids (Events)
Ontology (Keyword Classification)
Manuscripts
Artifacts
Places
Persons
Works (Primary Source Texts)
Citations (Bibliographic Items)
Factoids (Events)
Ontology (Keyword Classification)
Manuscripts
Artifacts
What are the best practices?
Need for digital standards for Syriac studies.
Places: Pelagios, Pleiades
Persons: SNAP:DRGN, VIAF
Works (Primary Source Texts): CBSC,VIAF, Perseus, CTS/DTS, Trismegistos
Citations (Bibliographic Items): WorldCat, Dublin Core, Zotero, Syri.ac, Archive.org
Factoids (Events): PASE, PBW
Ontology (Keyword Classification): CBSC, Brock, LOC, InPhO
Manuscripts: TEI, Fihrist UK, Beta maṣāḥǝft, Papyri.info
Artifacts: TBA (CIDOC CRM?)
Places
Persons
Works (Primary Source Texts)
Citations (Bibliographic Items)
Factoids (Events)
Ontology (Keyword Classification)
Manuscripts
Artifacts
Minting URIS for these entities.
Think of a URI as an identifier number.
Providing a service for named entities for the Syriac LOD community.
The Syriac Gazetteer
syriaca.org/geo
Editors:
Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University
David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University
URI for each entity.
Edessa =
http://syriaca.org/place/78
The URI is the core aspect of each entry. The purpose of the rest of the entry is to define the historical concept (e.g. place) named by the URI. LIMIT: only enough for disambiguation.
Goal of Syriaca.org is to provide digital structure for linking, data aggregation, and search. Our goal is NOT collecting data. This would be impossible. We aim to provide a platform for linking your data collections.
Linking Syriaca.org URI to URIS from other resources eg. Pleiades, Wikipedia, Pelagios, etc. (also to “print” resources).
This provides Syriac projects connection to the larger LOD world.
Other Data:
Variant Name Forms
Other Data:
Short descriptions
Other Data:
Attestations in Texts, Manuscripts, or Material Evidence
Using URIs for works
Other Data:
Citations
with URIS
Other Data:
Any other entities with URIS (other places, persons, works, etc.)
New Handbook of Syriac Literature
syriaca.org/nhsl
General Editors:
Nathan P. Gibson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University
A Guide to Syriac Authors
(Syriac Biographical Dictionary, vol 2)
syriaca.org/authors
General Editors:
David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University
Nathan P. Gibson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Technical Details
Open Source App: Srophé designed by Winona Salesky
OPEN ACCESS DATA (CC-BY) stored in TEI XML and serialized as RDF and JSON
Data available through API, SPARQL endpoint, github
Srophé App now in use by 7 other digital humanities projects ranging from medieval Chinese architecture, to early modern Peru, to corpus linguistics.
Doing things with URIs (two projects in development)
Thank you!
To Wido and the organizers and sponsors.
To Winona Salesky our developer who is the one who has made everything work and beautiful!
To the many projects who we copied to learn how to do this: Tom Elliott and Pleiades, Pelagios, Trismegistos, SNAP-DRGN, Papyri.info and many others.
For discussion