Trismegistos Data Services

Tom Gheldof, Frédéric Pietowski

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Tom Gheldof, Frédéric Pietowski. Trismegistos Data Services: Digital tools for Ancient World LOD networks. Linked Pasts IV, Dec 2018, Mainz, Germany. , 2018. [https://hal.science/hal-01955745](https://hal.science/hal-01955745).

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# Trismegistos Data Services:
Digital tools for Ancient World LOD networks

T. Gheldof & F. Pietowski (https://www.trismegistos.org)

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## Trismegistos Places

Trismegistos (TM): interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources from the Ancient World
TM Places: gazetteer of 50,000+ ancient places
URI: stable identifier for place name (TM Geo ID)
LOD: variant names, coordinates, links, ...

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**TM Geo 100:** Alexandria
URI: https://www.trismegistos.org/place/100

**Endpoint TM GeoRelations 100:** https://www.trismegistos.org
/dataservices/georelations/(or URI/or XML/)100

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Search 20+ projects & find related data about places
OUTPUT: in JSON (ID), JSON (URI) & XML format
INPUT: TM GEO ID (M); project (O) with 30,000+ links

Trismegistos GeoRelations API connects TM Places to related information from different partner projects

### GeoRelations Matcher

## GeoResponder

View and download a GeoJSON response for every TM Place name by using the GeoResponder endpoint and the TM Geo ID
**INPUT:** stable URI (TM Geo ID)
**OUTPUT:** standardized GeoJSON
--> geometry, names, links, properties, ...

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**Endpoint TM Geo 100:** https://www.trismegistos.org
/dataservices/georesponder/georesponder.php?id=100

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**Endpoint TM TextRelations 226264:** https://www.trismegistos.org
/dataservices/texrelations/(or URI/or XML/)226264

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Search 75+ projects & find related data about texts
OUTPUT: in JSON (ID), JSON (URI) & XML format
INPUT: TM ID (M); project (O) with 1,000,000+ links

Trismegistos TexRelations API connects TM Texts to related information from different partner projects

### TexRelations Matcher

## Why use TM Linked Open Data?

Curated & up to date, fast development, customizable APIs, ...
Available in different formats (also TM Geo CSV & JSON dumpfiles + GeoRDF & RDF-extended) to match and/or link to TM Data

https://www.trismegistos.org/dataservices

## TM pilot project

Ancient World Networks
Linked Data
Open License

http://be.dariah.eu/

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DARIAH-BE

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