Periods, Organized (PeriodO): A gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing periodized data

FAIN: HD-51864-14

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
Adam T. Rabinowitz (Project Director: September 2013 to May 2016)

The development of a gazetteer that incorporates different scholarly definitions of historical and archaeological periods.

The PeriodO project seeks to create an online gazetteer of authoritative assertions about the chronological and geographic extent of historical and archaeological periods. Starting with a trial dataset related to Classical antiquity, this gazetteer will combine period thesauri used by museums and cultural heritage bodies with published assertions about the dates and locations of periods in authoritative print sources. These assertions will be modeled in a Linked Data format (JSON-LD, a serialization of RDF). They will be given Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and served from a public GitHub repository, where they can act as a shared reference point to describe data in datasets with periodized information. We will also create a search and visualization tool to view the temporal and geographic extent of an assertion and compare it with others. Authoritative users will be able to add their own period assertions.

Associated Products

Periods, Organized (PeriodO): a gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing periodized data (Web Resource)
Title: Periods, Organized (PeriodO): a gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing periodized data
Author: Adam Rabinowitz
Author: Ryan Shaw
Author: Eric Kansa
Abstract: The main website for the PeriodO project. It provides information about the project and the project team, links to papers and presentations, and will be used to provide updates on the project's progress.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://perio.do
Primary URL Description: Home page for the PeriodO project.

It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancient World Data (Article)
Title: It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancient World Data
Author: Adam Rabinowitz
Abstract: This paper discusses the current state of chronology, and especially periodization, in Linked Ancient World Data. It identifies a gap in the availability of comprehensive Linked Data resources that recognize the complexities of historical and archaeological periodization, and describes the PeriodO project as a potential solution to this problem. The paper was developed in the context of the NEH-sponsored Linked Ancient World Data Institute led by Tom Elliott, Sebastian Heath, and John Muccigrosso in 2012-2013.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/rabinowitz/
Primary URL Description: Rabinowitz, A., "It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancient World Data", in T. Elliott, S. Heath, and J. Muccigrosso, Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World (ISAW Papers 7, 2014), http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/rabinowitz/
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: ISAW Papers
Publisher: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

PeriodO Dataset (Web Resource)
Title: PeriodO Dataset
Author: Patrick Golden
Author: Ryan Shaw
Author: Adam Rabinowitz
Author: Sarah Buchanan
Abstract: This is the current link to the canonical collection of period definitions assembled by PeriodO. It is also the link to the user interface, which allows the user to create local collections of periods from the canonical dataset.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://test.perio.do
Primary URL Description: Temporary URL for the PeriodO dataset and user interface.

A Sharing-Oriented Design Strategy for Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (Article)
Title: A Sharing-Oriented Design Strategy for Networked Knowledge Organization Systems
Author: Eric Kansa
Author: Ryan Shaw
Author: Adam Rabinowitz
Author: Patrick Golden
Abstract: Designers of networked knowledge organization systems often follow a service-oriented design strategy, assuming an organizational model where one party outsources clearly delineated business processes to another party. But the logic of outsourcing is a poor fit for some knowledge organization practices.When knowledge organization is understood as a process of exchange among peers, a sharing-oriented design strategy makes more sense. As an example of a sharing-oriented strategy for designing networked knowledge organization systems, we describe the design of the PeriodO period gazetteer.We analyze the PeriodO data model, its representation using JavaScript Object Notation-Linked Data, and the management of changes to the PeriodO dataset. We conclude by discussing why a sharing-oriented design strategy is appropriate for organizing scholarly knowledge.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/280529967
Secondary URL: http://doi:10.1007/s00799-015-0164-0
Access Model: Self-archived on ResearchGate
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: International Journal on Digital Libraries

Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer (Article)
Title: Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer
Author: Ryan Shaw
Author: Patrick Golden
Abstract: The information expressed in humanities datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication,” which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal representations of humanities data and its discursive basis. In this paper we describe nanopublication, its potential applicability to the humanities, and our experience curating humanities nanopublications in the PeriodO period gazetteer.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.44
Primary URL Description: DOI for the article
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: PeerJ Computer Science

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