| HAA-261261-18 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | University of Virginia | Linked Open Greek Pottery | 9/1/2018 - 6/30/2021 | $85,382.00 | Tyler Jo | | Smith | | | | University of Virginia | Charlottesville | VA | 22903-4833 | USA | 2018 | Arts, General | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 85382 | 0 | 85250.12 | 0 | The development of a model for aggregating information about dispersed
collections of ancient Greek pottery based on the concepts of linked open data
to provide greater access to the collections and to allow new ways of analyzing
the materials.
Linked Open Greek Pottery: Kerameikos.org is an international effort to define the intellectual concepts of Archaic and Classical Greek pottery following the methodologies of Linked Open Data (LOD). These concepts include categories such as shapes, artists, styles, and production places. When linked externally to other LOD thesauri, such as the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Kerameikos.org allows for the normalization and aggregation of disparate museum and archaeological datasets into an information system that facilitates broader public access (e.g., Pelagios Commons). Beyond the definition of pottery concepts, following open web standards, Kerameikos.org will standardize and document an ontology and model for exchanging pottery data, provide easy-to-use interfaces to visualize geographic and quantitative distributions of Greek pottery, and publish a series of data manipulation web services enabling archaeologists and museum professionals to contribute data to this ecosystem. |