Vocabularies for Classicists (from the Digital Classicists wiki)

 [First posted in AWOL 9 July 2014, updated 7 September 2021]

Vocabularies for Classicists (from the Digital Classicists wiki)

Classicists working on digital projects that involve data are encouraged to link their data to the semantic web. If you are new to the topic, start here (Linked open data).

In thinking about new vocabularies, whether for subjects, predicates, or objects of triples, one should begin with a survey of what already exists. By using one another's vocabularies, we reinforce the interoperability, and therefore utility, of our data. And it saves us the time needed to invent a taxonomy.

Sets of RDF vocabularies tend to fall in two groups: (1) terms for items, persons, concepts, and other resources and (2) terms for the relations that hold between resources. The first group correspond to what many scholars call controlled vocabulary, and they frequently show up as the subjects and objects of triples. The second corresponds to the vocabularies used in ontologies (e.g., RDFS, OWL, SKOS), and frequently show up as the predicates of triples.

Contents

• 1 Resources (names of things; ideal for subjects and objects of triples)
  • 1.1 General
  • 1.2 Writing (texts, bibliography, works, text manifestations)
    • 1.2.1 Text/object data
  • 1.3 Geography
  • 1.4 People
    • 1.4.1 Person data
  • 1.5 Objects
  • 1.6 Topics
• 2 Ontologies (terms for relationships; ideal for predicates of triples)
  • 2.1 General
  • 2.2 Writing (texts, bibliography, works, text manifestations)
  • 2.3 Geography

The Getty has released the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)® as Linked Open

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Now Available as Linked Open Data

James Cuno | February 20, 2014

First of the Getty Research Institute’s four vocabularies released today, with more planned over coming 18 months

We’re delighted to announce that today, the Getty has released the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)® as Linked Open Data. The data set is available for download at vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC BY 1.0).

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus is a reference of over 250,000 terms on art and architectural history, styles, and techniques. It’s one of the Getty Research Institute’s four Getty Vocabularies, a collection of databases that serves as the premier resource for cultural heritage terms, artists’ names, and geographical information, reflecting over 30 years of collaborative scholarship. The other three Getty Vocabularies will be released as Linked Open Data over the coming 18 months.

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