Göbekli Tepe Ontoterminology

Overview

Defines and represents the archaeological finds of the T-pillars at Göbekli Tepe, south-east Turkey (10,000 – 8300 BCE), in a machine-tractable way.

It is an ontoterminology: a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology. The site's monumental architecture and the iconography carved into it are modelled so a machine can reason over them, while the terminology excavators actually use is preserved alongside.

Scope

Access the data

Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

Ways in

• SPARQL endpoint: browser interface, no setup
• OTV Ontology Viewer: browse the class hierarchy
• RDF Graph Viewer: explore as a network
• Download the RDF/OWL and .otb files

The .otb file opens in TEDI; the .rdf file opens in Protégé, and can be visualised with WebVOWL.

Example queries

A list for the english terms and the definitions in natural language of the ontoterminology using OTV

Terms and their definitions in English. Every concept is denoted by one or more terms, each carrying a language tag, so the language filter is what keeps a multilingual ontoterminology readable.

PREFIX rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX otv:  <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/otv#>

SELECT ?termName ?definition
FROM <https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Modeling-Archaeological-Site-Gobekli-Tepe-v1>
WHERE {
  ?concept rdf:type otv:Concept;
           otv:denotedByTerm ?term.
  ?term    otv:language        ?lg;
           otv:termName        ?termName;
           otv:termDefinition  ?definition.
  FILTER (?lg = "en")
}
ORDER BY ?termName
LIMIT 10

Raise or remove the LIMIT once you know the shape of the results. The same pattern works against the other ontoterminologies: change the graph IRI in the FROM clause.

Size & structure

Citation & licence

Cite as

Lourentzaki, A., Papadopoulou, M., & Roche, C. (2024). 
Modeling An Archaeological Site - Göbekli Tepe v.1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13370343

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13370343

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

Credits

Department of Archaeology and Department of Philology, University of Crete