Over the centuries, the ancient Greek poet Sappho has been imagined and reimagined in countless ways. More than 1,000 German-language texts from the 15th to the 21st century reference Sappho in ways that range from quotation and allusion to fictionalization and stylistic imitation. My dissertation project documents and analyzes these forms of productive literary reception using Linked Data. This repository stores the corresponding data.
For a detailed description of the project and the data, see the project website, which is based on the DSE-Static-Cookiecutter. If, for whatever reason, the website becomes unavailable, you can access an archived version via the Wayback Machine.
This repository contains:
- XML/TEI files listing testimonies of the productive literary reception of Sappho.
- RDF/XML, Turtle and JSON-LD files with information about these productive literary reception testimonies: about the authors, the works, intertextual features in 99 exemplary texts, and their relationships to each other as well as to Sappho’s work ("sappho-reception" is the combined file).
- An OWL-ontology, a SKOS-vocabulary and ontology alignments. URIs:
- Ontology: https://w3id.org/sappho-digital/ontology/, see also https://sappho-digital.com/ontology.html
- Vocabulary: https://w3id.org/sappho-digital/vocab/, see also https://sappho-digital.com/vocab.html
- Alignments: https://w3id.org/sappho-digital/alignments/, see also https://sappho-digital.com/alignments.html
- More files documenting the applied data model. To get an idea of the data model, see also the companion repository wikidata-to-cidoc-crm. This repository contains Python scripts and a Python package for converting structured data from Wikidata into RDF using CIDOC CRM, LRMoo, and INTRO.
- Scripts used for data transformation and satistics (XSLT, JavaScript and Python).
- A Java program for reasoning with HermiT.
Ontology versions used:
- Erlangen CRM 240307 (based on CIDOC CRM 7.1.3)
- LRMoo 1.1.1
- INTRO beta202506
For questions, suggestions, or reports of errors, feel free to reach out (laura.untner@fu-berlin.de) or open an issue.
Laura Untner: Sappho Digital. Die literarische Sappho-Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum. Berlin/Vienna 2024–[2027], https://sappho-digital.com.
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The projects includes Saxon-HE, which is licensed separately under the Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0 (MPL 2.0). See the dedicated LICENSE.txt.
