An ontology for Linked Ancient World Data
The goal of LAWD is to fill in the cracks between the data used and published by projects with a focus on the ancient world and the standard Linked Data vocablary schemes, like Dublin Core, the Open Annotation Collaboration, and CIDOC-CRM. LAWD will accomplish this by defining just enough new classes and properties to permit the semantic modeling of things like manuscript collation, relating provenance to geography, and prosopography.
namespace: http://lawd.info/ontology/
dc: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1 (Dublin Core Elements)
dct: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ (Dublin Core Terms)
crm: http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/ (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model)
geo: http://geovocab.org/spatial# (GeoVocab.org)
prov: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# (PROV-O, the Provenance Ontology)
The idea of a work, which may have any number of written expressions (which may themselves have derivatives). Analogous to a Work in FRBR.
A written work (whether extant or not) that is a version of a ConceptualWork
. Subclasses are AssembledWork
,
Edition
, Translation
, and Hand
. A WrittenWork
may be part of another WrittenWork
(e.g. a manuscript
written in multiple hands), it may embody one or more ConceptualWork
s (e.g. a codex comprised of several works),
and it may have one or more WrittenWork
s as a source (e.g. an edition or translation that makes use of
several versions).
A Citation
models a bibliographic reference in long or short form that may be used to represent the thing it references (like an entry in a bibliography, for example). When the cited work is a Non Information Resource, a
Citation
may be used as the Information Resource analog for the cited work. A Siglum
is a specialized citation used in the context of critical apparatus that uses a symbol to refer to a source, such as a manuscript.
Domain: WrittenWork
Range: ConceptualWork
used to indicate the source of a WrittenWork
(which will be one or more WrittenWork
s)
Domain: Citation
, Range: WrittenWork
These relate Citation
s to WrittenWork
s
An Agent is an abstract entity which has agency or is considered capable of acting in some way. LAWD Agents are equivalent to PROV-O Agents.
Any person, whether real or fictional.
Any group, association, family, etc. which may be referred to as a single entity.
Any god, divinity or other sacred being from myth or cult
An abstract name, which has one or more primary forms and any number of variant forms.
A name belonging to a lawd:Person
A name belonging to a lawd:Place
Range: Name
Indicates that (e.g.) a Person or Place has a lawd:Name that is the range of the property.
Indicates the primary form of a Name
Indicates a variant form of a Name
An Observation is a scholarly assertion. There are two subclasses, dealing with the identification of evidence and the observation of textual reuse (e.g. quotation, summary, or allusion).
A superclass for types of evidence.
An Attestation models a piece of evidence for something in a text (e.g. the mention of a person in a document). Typically it is the conjunction of a Citation and an entity like a name or person.
TextReuse models an instance where an author quotes, summarizes, alludes to, or otherwise re-uses language in a text that comes from another text.
An rdf:value
property on an Attestation
or TextReuse
may be used to provide the text of, e.g., the attestation or reuse.
Indicates a Citation
that refers to the source for an Attestation
Indicates an Attestation
providing evidence for a Name
, Person
, etc.
Links from a TextReuse
instance to a Citation
of the work from which the reused text came.
Links from a TextReuse
instance to a Citation
of the work in which the reused text appears.
Range: Place
The place where an artifact originated.
Range: Place
The place where an artifact was found.
Range: Place
Generic location relation. Can be used when the nature of the connection to a place is unclear.
Models an alternate reading in a manuscript source, an editor's comment on a reading, or the observation that a reading has a parallel elsewhere.