1. Unwinding Humanities Citations Bruce Robertson, Classics, Mount Allison University Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services UNB June 14-15

2. Dynamic Variorum Editions Digging into Data Challenge project to digitize and align tens of thousands of Latin texts How do we use these? Citation Quotation

3. References in Humanities Thought

4. An Abstracted Graph to Render a Citation Inline

5. Rethinking Humanities Citations John 3:16, etc. form a sort of early, non- actionable semantic web Pros: World standard of pointers Cons: Abbreviated, for economical reasons: P Oxy, FgrH  Which Greek author is Ar.? If you're English-speaking, Aristophanes If you're French-speaking, it might be Aristotle Difficult to access the referred-to text

6. Replacing the Citation Within the web of information, use Canonical Text Services URNs: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0532:tlg001:1:10 ^collection ^auth ^work ^subsections In browser: reject the abbreviation wholly Exploit dbpedia, etc. to provide internationalized (or partially internationalized) labels for the references Make all references able to be de-referenced

7. Desiderata Standard means of mapping CTS URN to URL Taking a very naive approach Entities for ancient languages, peoples, literary works and their extensively internationalized rdfs:labels Dbpedia Means of integrating these two Swiftowlim store with efficient owl:sameAs

8. #describe the text in CIDOC-CRM and dbpedia a crm:E33. crm:P72F dbpedia:Ancient_greek. #Note that it has a translation crm:P73. crm:P72F dbpedia:English_language. #Identify the author in dbpedia terms owl:sameAs dbpedia:Thucydides. a crm:E39. #Identify the text in dbpedia terms owl:sameAs dbpedia:Peloponnesian_War. #State the relationship between author and text a crm:E65.

9. HTML5 'data' Attribute

13. Future Work Provide links to chunked, rendered text Perseus server CTS server Scan works in, e.g., JSTOR, for standard citations, and replace with this system Apply these techniques to event labels Associate events with canonical citations for further research in secondary works Expose more finely grained information: syntax, semantics, grammar of Latin sentences