Steve Tinney

Ontologies and Cuneiform

June 29, 2012terhiDay of Archaeology 2012acm Web Science, Akkadian Empire, Akkadian language, Archaeological Computing Research Group, Babylon, Brad Hafford, Chicago, Cuneiform script, Department of Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Summer School, Fertile Crescent, Field Museum, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, King's College, Linked Ancient World Data Institute, Linked Data, London, Mesopotamia, New York, Ontology, Oxford, Penn Museum, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, spent touring Philadelphia, Steve Tinney, Toronto, University of Southampton, Virginia, Washington DC, Web Science Doctoral Training Centre

I am a first year PhD student, based at the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre and the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton. My research looks at Linked Open Data and literary compositions from ancient Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform. Today, I’m going through some translations of Sumerian narrative mythologies in order to identify one that I can use as a case study to compare and contrast different ontologies for the representation of the same text. (more…)