Challenges in research community building: integrating Terra Sigillata (Samian) research into the Wikidata community
- Title
- Challenges in research community building: integrating Terra Sigillata (Samian) research into the Wikidata community
- Creator(s)
- Thiery, Florian
- Mees, Allard W.
- Kiesling, John Brady
- Date
- 2023
- Is Part Of
-
Archeologia e Calcolatori
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 157-164
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Short Title
- Challenges in research community building
- Abstract
- In 2020, the Samian Research database began a process of integrating its data within Wikidata through the creation of a set of Samian Research Wikidata items, including Samian Ware Discovery Sites, Samian Ware kiln sites and kiln regions, comprising accurate or approximate geospatial information and a backlink to the Linked Open Data hub ‘archaeology.link’. This approach of creating designated Wikidata items is an efficient way to map the enormous geographic reach of our subject and to call attention to many European archaeological sites and excavations that hitherto lacked a Wikidata identifier. The site of Corinth illustrates an exemplary issue to be solved: ambiguity and different archaeological concepts and ideas. E.g., is it correct to merge Corinth as a Samian Ware Discovery Site with the archaeological site of ancient Corinth? To solve the issue, the broader Wikidata community must be enlisted. This paper describes the challenges in the use case of Corinth and offers solutions within Wikidata.
- Cites
- Ceramic Typologies Ontology (CeraTyOnt)
- Linked Pipe: Linked Open Samian Ware
- Archaeology and the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web und Linked Data: Generierung von Interoperabilität in archäologischen Fachdaten am Beispiel römischer Töpferstempel
- Linked open Samian Ware
- Linked Data
- Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
- FOAF Vocabulary Specification
- RDF Schema 1.1
- Wikidata:WikiProject Linked Open Samian Ware - Wikidata
- Wikidata:WikiProject Archaeology - Wikidata
- Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase
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