Monthly Archives: November 2010

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 →

We are having a very productive week here in London. It started with all hands meeting on Monday and continues with more focused discussions. We went through all the datasets with our prospective end users and identified metadata properties that … Continue reading →