LAGL Catalog of Authors and Works

This Catalog is part of the Linked Ancient Greek and Latin (LAGL) project and is populated with forms deriving from the linguistic extraction and annotation of expressions about authors and works in ancient Greek sources.

This is the first version of the Catalog, which shows data from the catalogs of the Digital Athenaeus, the Digital Harpocration, and the Digital Suda projects. Forthcoming versions of the catalog will allow to search Greek forms and will be enriched with data from other sources, such as the works of Clement of Alexandria.

Annotated tokens of the Catalog can be visualized in the Linguistic Catalog of the LAGL project, where they are enriched with lemmata and Named Entity (NE) labels.

A dedicated WikiProject LAGL gathers contributors to discuss and establish consistent, uniform guidelines for using Wikidata properties to make statements about ancient authors, primarily based on linguistic data extracted from ancient sources. A direct link between the LAGL Catalog and Wikidata is provided by the LAGL author ID Wikidata Property (P12869) that collects identifiers of Ancient Greek and Latin authors from the LAGL Catalog.

Search Fields

• Author name: author name in the Latinized form according to the TLG Canon and the Perseus Catalog (e.g., Xenophon).
• Author CTS URN: author CTS URN according to the Perseus Catalog (e.g., urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032). Authors not yet in the TLG Canon and in the Perseus Catalog are assigned new numbers with the prefix lagl (e.g., Arignote: urn:cts:greekLit:lagl0309).

Output Fields

• Author name: author name in the Latinized form with the corresponding Wikidata item ID. Note that the LAGL author ID Wikidata Property (P12869) collects identifiers of Ancient Greek and Latin authors from the LAGL Catalog.
• Place of birth: place(s) provided by Wikidata in the place of birth statement (property P19) for the corresponding author with Pleiades URIs (if available).
• Place of death: place(s) provided by Wikidata in the place of death statement (property P20) for the corresponding author with Pleiades URIs (if available).
• Occupation: value(s) provided by Wikidata in the occupation statement (property P106) for the corresponding author.
• Ancient Sources: ancient sources with extracted references to the searched author.
• Works: list of works of the searched author with CTS URNs and corresponding Wikidata item identifiers (if available).

Experimental Metadata

• LAGL Authors Wikidata work-related properties: this table shows all Wikidata items with a LAGL author ID (P12869) and a selection of their associated work-related properties: occupation (P106), field of work (P101), movement (P135), genre (P136). This table is updated regularly to keep track of changes in Wikidata.

Experimental Maps

• LAGL Authors Wikidata live map: it queries all Wikidata items with a LAGL author ID (P12869) and their associated locations in real time: place of birth (P19), place of death (P20), country of citizenship (P27), ancestral home (P66), place of burial (P119), residence (P551), location of formation (P740), work location (P937).
• LAGL Authors map with Wikidata location properties: this map shows all Wikidata items with a LAGL author ID (P12869) and the values of their associated location properties: place of birth (P19), place of death (P20), country of citizenship (P27), ancestral home (P66), place of burial (P119), residence (P551), location of formation (P740), work location (P937). This map is updated regularly to keep track of changes in Wikidata. Data is also accessible in a database with links to the map and vice versa.

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