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 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
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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
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