Linked Open Greek Pottery: Kerameikos.org and Linked Art

• Main Author: Gruber, Ethan
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Pleiades; The Pleiades; sami
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3463596; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3463596

This is a brief slideshow intended to be delivered (by Sami Norling?) in my absence from the Linked Art: Networking Digital Collections and Scholarship event at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1 October 2019. [slide 1] Kerameikos.org is an international project that seeks to define the intellectual concepts of ceramics studies following the principles of Linked Open Data. This phase of the project is funded by the US National Endowment for the Humanities and is focused primarily on creating URIs for Archaic and Classical Greek pottery concepts, which includes authoring definitions for shapes, artists, techniques, production places, etc. and linking them to equivalent entries in other LOD thesauri, such as the Getty and British Museum vocabularies and the Pleiades Gazetteer of Ancient Places. We are also aggregating vase data from partner collections as a proof of concept to facilitate new types of query and visualization. The emerging Linked Art community plays a significant role in this process. [slide 2] The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has a small collection of Greek vases that have served as a test case for building a harvester that integrates Linked Art-compliant JSON-LD into Kerameikos' Linked Open Data ecosystem. This vase pictured here in the IMA, represented by a URI, is a particular shape called a stamnos. It was painted by Hermonax, an Athenian artist, in the Red-figure technique in roughly the mid-5th century B.C. [slide 3] In a test of JSON-LD provided by Sami Norling at the IMA, some minor modifications were made to fill in any gaps in cataloging with the relevant Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names, and Thesaurus of Geographic Names identifiers. These URIs have equivalencies in Kerameikos.org and other systems. [slide 4] The harvesting workflow parses the Linked Art JSON-LD and distills it into the most basic network graph, represented here as RDF/XML conforming to the the underlying Linked Art profile in the CIDOC CRM ontology. The human-readable labels ...