Author Archives: mjackson

PELAGIOS have deployed a graph explorer to allow exploration of the linked data sets, including those created by SPQR, that they have focused on in their investigations into connecting references to ancient places. The graph explorer can be seen here. … Continue reading →

SPQR has been working on converting epigraphic data – data about inscriptions in the ancient world – to linked data. We have now converted data from the following epigraphic data sources: Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (InsAph). Originating from Turkey, 200BC-700AD, a … Continue reading →

The Digital Classicist is a international community of scholars and students interested in the application of innovative digital methods and technologies to research on the ancient world. On Friday 10th June, SPQR was invited to give a seminar at the … Continue reading →

Pelagios (Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems) is a project which is looking at adding linked data to online resources that refer to places in the ancient world. SPQR is a data provider for Pelagios, providing linked data … Continue reading →

The 2011 Classical Association Annual Conference runs from Friday 15th April to Monday 18th April in Durham. We’ll be giving a presentation on SPQR entitled “Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): the Semantic Web and (KCL) Ancient Datasets” as part … Continue reading →

We’ve been writing Clojure scripts to extract and RDFize EpiDoc data from the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, Inscriptions of Tripolitana and HGV data sets. These are hosted and maintained in our Google Code SVN repository at http://code.google.com/p/spqr/. We opted for SVN … Continue reading →

As a basis for our work in linked data in the humanities we have undertaken a survey of a number of data sets. These include those used in our LaQuAT project (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis, Projet Volterra) as well as many others … Continue reading →

We have designed an architecture for SPQR. The architecture consists of a triple-store of humanities data, populated from existing data sets using RDF imports, XSL transformations from XML, web scraping of HTML pages and querying of REST endpoints. The architecture provides services to … Continue reading →