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Sharing Ancient WisdomS Exploring the tradition of Greek and Arabic wisdom literatures Anna Jordanous www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk S A W S Newman Institute, Uppsala
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Sharing Ancient WisdomS Exploring the tradition of Greek and Arabic wisdom literatures Anna Jordanous S A W S Newman Institute,

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  • Sharing Ancient WisdomS Exploring the tradition of Greek and Arabic wisdom literatures Anna Jordanous www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk S A W S Newman Institute, Uppsala
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  • Aims of the SAWS project: Record and visualise the links within and between gnomologia; between these collections and source texts; and between collections and their recipient texts Develop tools to allow other scholars to publish similar material and link it to related texts (ours and others) Materials: Collections in Greek, Arabic, Spanish of wise sayings or moral advice (gnomologia) from 9 th -12 th C AD Source texts (e.g. ancient Greek philosophers) Recipient texts that draw upon the gnomologia e.g. Kekaumenos writings Anna Jordanous www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk
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  • ms (TEI) element ms (TEI) RDF Triplestore Geek-Friendly query/browse User adds relationships Folioscope User-Friendly query/browse element Linked Data Web Workflow: TEI plus RDF XSLT www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Anna Jordanous
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  • SAWS ontology = extension of FRBR-oo, customised for MSS-based texts SAWS relations about people: we actually used isReferencedBy The ontology also allows us to say things like isWrittenBy, isCopiedBy, isEditedBy, ownedBy, usedBy, isMemberOf (Institution), isAttributedToAuthor, isTransmittedBy, commentMadeBy, marginaliaAddedBy, decorationAddedBy, (section) isIdentifiedBy What we want to say about people: SAWS ontology www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Anna Jordanous
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  • Linked Data: Linking out from SAWS data Places: Pleiades via Pelagios Texts: CTS ids from digital libraries (plus some others) People: Prosopography of the Byzantine World Viaf Perseus catalogue Paregorios some we couldnt find online heteregenous ids, easy to find, point to web resources Moving to heteregenous ids, becoming easy to find, some web resources Ids vary widely, hard to find, some resolve to web resources. Issues with duplicates Ids vary widely, hard to find, some resolve to web resources. Issues with duplicates www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Anna Jordanous
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  • Charlotte Rouech And, as for Pilate, nothing else procured his condemnation except his being able to acquit the Lord and not having done so. As he himself bore witness, saying to Christ, ' I have authority to release you Example from Kekaumenos www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Anna Jordanous
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  • Example: People mentioned in SAWS texts http://catalog.perseus.org/catalog/Aphi0128Scipi http://catalog.perseus.org/catalog/Atlg1206Athen http://catalog.perseus.org/catalog/Mtlg0042Alexa Alexander www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Anna Jordanous
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  • Aristotle tutoring Alexander (13th century manuscript) Sharing Ancient WisdomS SAWS people here today: Anna Jordanous, Charlotte Rouech, Charlotte Tupman, Faith Lawrence www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk