Welcome to Linked Open Data for Ancient Metallurgy

Hi, I'm Fabian. Welcome to my digital sandbox, where I play with Linked Open Data for Ancient Metallurgy (LOD-AM)—a little scientific side hustle of mine.

This is my private experiment, a one-man show where I get to ask questions about copper-based metallurgy in Eurasia and all the Research Data Management (RDM) chaos that comes with it.

Latest 3 Posts

Tackling Legacy Data practically

How I'm using a 2002 paper on Arslantepe's metal objects to build practical Linked Open Data solutions for archaeometallurgical challenges.

The Vocabularies - Finding the Right Words for My Data

How I chose Pleiades, PeriodO, Getty AAT, Allotrope, and FABIO for LOD-AM.

The Ontologies - Choosing the Right Tools for the Job

How I chose CIDOC CRM, FRBRoo, and the Allotrope Framework for LOD-AM.

2 more posts can be found in the blog-archive

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A sandbox project dedicated to ancient metallurgical & open data methodologies.

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