Sharing Ancient Wisdoms across the Semantic Web using TEI and ontologies

This paper explores the approach of the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) project to the publication and analysis of the tradition of wisdom literatures in ancient Greek, Arabic, Spanish, and other languages. The SAWS project edits and presents the texts digitally, in a manner that enables linking and comparisons within and between anthologies, their source texts, and the texts that draw upon them (referred to here as ‘recipient texts’). It is also creating a framework through which other projects can link their own materials to these texts through the Semantic Web, thus providing a focal point for the development of scholarship on these texts and their related manuscripts. The project is funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) as part of their programme to investigate cultural dynamics in Europe, and constitutes teams at the Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for e-Research at King's College London, the Newman Institute Uppsala in Sweden, and the University of Vienna.