Linked Open Data
Linked Open Data and Linked Ancient World Data at the ICS
ICS Digital are involved in a range of Linked Open Data (LOD) activities around ancient world studies, including developing taxonomies and ontologies for recording connections between disparate projects and datasets and publishing them to the Semantic Web.
Staff
- Dr Gabriel Bodard, Reader in Digital Classics
- Professor Charlotte Roueché, Associate Fellow
- Dr Valeria Vitale, Research Collaborator (British Library)
- Dr Paula Granados García, Research Collaborator (British Museum)

Projects and ontologies
- Standards for Networking Ancient Person-data, LOD for ancient prosopography
- Pelagios Network
- Recogito: Linked Geo-data annotation tool
- Prosopography of the Byzantine World
- Connecting Late Antiquities
- Cross-cultural After-Life of Classical Sites (Arabic and Ottoman names of Classical sites)
- Epigraphic Ontology (discussion group around LOD for inscriptions)
- SCOTCH Ontology (for documenting 3D cultural heritage)
- CuCoO (Cultural Contact Ontology)
- Linked Pasts community (home page tba)
Activities
- Host, Linked Pasts 6 conference, December 2020
- EDH Hackathon, using and building on Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg open data
Training and teaching
- LOD sessions in MA module teaching (especially ICS03)
- SunoikisisDC sessions on Linked Open Data, including:
- Web Annotation (Nov 5, 2020)
- Linked Open Data (Nov 7, 2019)
- Digital Gazetteers (Oct 31, 2019)
- SPARQL study group (with IHR and DH)
- PhD supervision:
- Paula Granados García, Open University (external second supervisor), Cultural contact in Early Roman Spain through Linked Open Data (2016-2019)
If you would like to know more about any of these activities, or find out more about training, consultancy, project advice, or any other kind of collaboration involving Linked Ancient World Data, please get in touch with gabriel.bodard@sas.ac.uk.