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Trismegistos: An Interdisciplinary Platform for Ancient World Texts and Related Information

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Trismegistos (TM) is a KU Leuven coordinated metadata platform for the study of texts from the Ancient World. This article provides a survey of its development, from the roots in a prosopography of Ptolemaic Egypt to an all-encompassing database with information about texts from Egypt for the period from 800 BC to AD 800. The current technical setup is detailed in a next section, with special attention for the structure of the many interconnected relational databases. A final section presents the current expansion to include material from outside Egypt, particularly Latin (and to some extent also Greek) inscriptions, in the framework of the CIP-Europeana EAGLE project. It also discusses some potential technological innovations to facilitate data exchange in a linked Open Data environment.

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  • Trismegistos
  • Ancient history texts
  • Relational database
  • Linked open data

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    Mark Depauw & Tom Gheldof

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Depauw, M., Gheldof, T. (2014). Trismegistos: An Interdisciplinary Platform for Ancient World Texts and Related Information. In: Bolikowski, Ł., Casarosa, V., Goodale, P., Houssos, N., Manghi, P., Schirrwagen, J. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries -- TPDL 2013 Selected Workshops. TPDL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_5

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