This doctoral research project examines the potential of existing semantic technologies such as OWL ontologies for the representation of the narrative structures as expressed in the content of Sumerian literary compositions. Thus far, the project has focused on the processes necessary for the publication of the composite texts as published by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/) in machine-readable formats. The Linked Open Data publication paradigm and issues of Knowledge Representation play a significant role in this project, which is focused exclusively on Assyriological data.
Email: tmtn1g10@soton.ac.uk