Welcome to HucitLib’s documentation!

hucitlib is a knowledge base about classical (Greek and Latin) texts, as well as a Python library to query and modify its contents.

The main goal of hucitlib is to support the automatic extraction of bibliographic references to primary sources in the domain of Classics. The hucitlib knowledge base contains:

  • names (and abbreviations) of ancient authors;

  • titles (and abbreviations) of ancient works;

  • resolvable URIs and unique identifiers (CTS URNs) for authors, works and citable passages;

  • links to external resources (Perseus Catalog, Wikidata, Wikipedia);

  • information about the canonical citation structure of ancient works.

hucitlib relies on SuRF , a Python Object RDF Mapper library, so as to In order to make the knowledge base as much as possible easy to use programmatically (read more here).

If you are using hucitlib as part of your research, please cite the following paper:

  @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/semweb/RomanelloP17,
  author    = {Matteo Romanello and
               Michele Pasin},
  editor    = {Alessandro Adamou and
               Enrico Daga and
               Leif Isaksen},
  title     = {Using Linked Open Data to Bootstrap a Knowledge Base of Classical
               Texts},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web
               (WHiSe {II)} co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference
               {(ISWC} 2017), Vienna, Austria, October 22, 2017},
  series    = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume    = {2014},
  pages     = {3--14},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year      = {2017},
  url       = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2014/paper-01.pdf},
  timestamp = {Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:44:52 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/semweb/RomanelloP17.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

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