2023:Program/Submissions/Irish ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ Stones in the Wikimedia Universe - 9QCDUW
Title: Irish ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ Stones in the Wikimedia Universe
Speakers:
Florian Thiery
OSM/Wikidata: @fthierygeo 2013: Master of Science, Geoinformatik und Vermessung, FH Mainz currently: RSE @ Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz currently: RSE @ Research Squirrel Engineers Network
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Type: Lightning talk
Track: Open Data
Submission state: submitted
Duration: 10 minutes
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Presentation language: en
Abstract & description[edit source]
Abstract[edit source]
ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ (Ogham) stones are monoliths inscribed with the early medieval Ogham script, erected mainly in Ireland between the 4th and 9th centuries. Many can be seen "in the wild" or museums for the "volunteer community". This lightning talk describes the documentation, modelling and publication of these archaeological resources in community hubs such as Wikidata (structured data) and Open Street Map (spatial data) as well as Wikimedia Commons (images).
Description[edit source]
ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ (Ogham) stones are monoliths with the early medieval Primitive Irish Ogham script, placed on the island of Ireland and in the western part of Britain between the 4th and 9th centuries. They are an important source for Archaic or Proto-Irish language and society. The letters of the Ogham alphabet consist of strokes written at different lengths and angles along (often natural) edges of the stones from the bottom left to the top and back down to the right. Names on the stones appear to be dedicated to person. It remains unclear, however, whether the stones were grave markers, for example, or denoted land ownership.
Documentation on Ogham stones is available in many analogue sources as well as partly open online databases or repositories. However, as there is no common standard of identification (e.g. stones, sites), these data cannot be analysed together, in short, they are not interoperable. The ogham.link project of the Research Squirrel Engineers Network creates a semantically modelled data basis as Linked Open Data (LOD) using community hubs such as Open Street Map and Wikidata. It has already been funded by a Fellowship from the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. accociation in the Open Science Fellows Program as 'Irish ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ Stones in the Wikimedia Universe'. The data and also geodata are extracted in it through a workflow, modelled and made available via various hubs. In the Fellow project, this was done primarily as native RDF data, but also as Quick Statements for integration into Wikidata. In Wikidata, sites can be linked to Irish townlands, for which there is a platform townlands.ie based on OSM data, if these cannot be determined more precisely on site. Ogham stones "in the wild" can bee seen on the Irish island, especially on the Dingle and Iveragh Peninsulas. One goal of the project is also to document them with photos and publish them on Wikimedia Commons. With this combination Wikipedia articles on Ogham can be enhanced using images and structured data from Wikidata.
This talk gives insights into the documentation, modelling and publication of selected Ogham stones from Ireland in Wikidata (user: fthierygeo, Sophie_C._Schmidt) and Open Street Map and shows how to create an Ogham knowledge graph with meta- and paradata as well as images.
Further details[edit source]
Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?
Ogham is an interesting Heritage Ressource. The Wikimedia Universe offers a lot of perspectives for diverse collaboration across Europe (and maybe worldwide) and could be part of the Wikimedia Movement.
Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?
Onsite in Singapore
Remote online participation, livestreamed- Remote from a satellite event
- Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
- Pre-recorded and available on demand
