Fragments of archaic lyric poems survived in the early editions and the widespread manuscripts during the Italian Renaissance: a detailed recording and advanced searches in the frame of a software ontology

Abstract

This article aims at organizing the information about the first printed edition (Editio Princeps) of works of various scholars including fragments of ancient lyric poets. The great number of the works and the fragments along with the multiplicity of their interconnections necessitated the creation of a digital environment, in which all the available information has been recorded. The selected data structure is a software ontology created and manipulated in the digital platform OWL Protégé. Protégé platform is equipped with valuable additional tools, such as the graphical application Ontograf and the SPARQL queries environment. In SPARQL one can write and run various sophisticated search queries mining the various parts of information concerning fragments, works, scholars and ancient lyrical poets reappeared in the Renaissance. The created ontology is open to researchers either for consulting or for updating and editing.