A digital humanities dissertation project documenting and analyzing the productive literary reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho across more than 1,000 German-language texts from the 15th to the 21st century — using Linked Data and formal ontologies.
For a full project description, see the project website (built with DSE-Static-Cookiecutter). If the website is unavailable, an archived version can be accessed via the Wayback Machine.
⚠️ This repository is under active development.
Laura Untner: Sappho Digital. Die literarische Sappho-Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum. Berlin/Vienna 2024–[2027], https://sappho-digital.com.
BibTeX
@dataset{untner_sappho_digital_2024,
author = {Untner, Laura},
title = {Sappho Digital. Die literarische Sappho-Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum},
year = {2024},
url = {https://sappho-digital.com},
note = {Berlin/Vienna, 2024--[2027]}
}A machine-readable citation is also available in CITATION.cff.
- XML/TEI files – Lists of German-language testimonies of the productive literary reception of Sappho.
- RDF/XML, Turtle, and JSON-LD files — Structured information about reception testimonies: authors, works, intertextual features in exemplary texts, and their relationships to each other and to Sappho’s own work. The
sappho-receptionfile combines all of these.
| Resource | URI | Website |
|---|---|---|
| Ontology (OWL) | w3id.org/sappho-digital/ontology/ | sappho-digital.com/ontology.html |
| Vocabulary (SKOS) | w3id.org/sappho-digital/vocab/ | sappho-digital.com/vocab.html |
| Alignments | w3id.org/sappho-digital/alignments/ | sappho-digital.com/alignments.html |
Ontology versions used in developing the Sappho Digital Ontology:
- Erlangen CRM 240307 (based on CIDOC CRM 7.1.3)
- LRMoo 1.1.1
- INTRO beta202506
Additional documentation of the applied data model is in the /documentation folder.
For the data model in action, see also the companion repository wikidata-to-cidoc-crm, which contains Python scripts and a package for converting Wikidata into RDF using CIDOC CRM, LRMoo, and INTRO. See also the associated publication:
Laura Untner: From Wikidata to CIDOC CRM: A Use Case Scenario for Digital Comparative Literary Studies. In: Journal of Open Humanities Data 11 (2025), pp. 1–15. DOI: 10.5334/johd.421
- XSLT, JavaScript, and Python — Scripts for data transformation and statistics.
- Java — Reasoner program using HermiT.
- Code for the project website.
Clone the repository and run the following from the project root:
ant
This project is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
This repository also includes Saxon-HE, licensed separately under the Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0 (MPL 2.0).
For questions, suggestions, or error reports, feel free to reach out at laura.untner@fu-berlin.de or open an issue.
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