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The RDF triples created by the SPQR project are avaiable for download as compressed RDF/XML, one file for HGV, one combining the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and the Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: RDF triples derived from HGV, in RDF/XML form RDF … Continue reading →

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 →

Just a quick note – by default your Mac JVM will use Mac Roman charset (or whatever it is). This results in “???????” for all your Greek letters. To fix this configure your eclipse JVM to use: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

One of the goals of the SPQR project is to create a centralised knowledge base (KB) by integrating several open datasets which relate to the classical period and supporting scholarly inference through ontological modelling. The Linked Data aspect is parallel … Continue reading →

We tried to model a bit more complex SPQR example using the Europeana data model (EDM). In this example we have two representations of the same papyrus. One is taken from the HGV and the other from the APIS database. … Continue reading →