Chronological and geographical annotations in DAMOS

• Main Author: Aurora, Federico
• Other Authors: University of Oslo,
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2017
• Subjects: Chronologie; Geographie; Mykene; Linearschrift B; Griechisch; Datenbank; Chronology; Geography; Mycene; Linear B; Greek; Database; ddc:930
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-221476; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-221476; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/22147/Aurora_Praesentation.pdf; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/22147/Aurora_Volltext.pdf

DAMOS is an online annotated database (MySql) of all published texts of Mycenaean, the earliest attested Greek dialect. The texts are annotated for epigraphical and linguistic features (morphology, syntax, semantics) and provided with a rich set of metadata, which also include chronological and geographical data. Genre (administrative accounts) and physical features (brevity and often fragmentary state) of the Mycenaean texts, and especially their script (Linear B), not well suited for rendering the Greek language, pose challenges to the interpretation of the texts, which often result in multiple possible values of the data at all levels – epigraphical, linguistic, metadata. These may often be organized in competing sets of values, which form coherent different overarching hypotheses on e.g. the grammar of the language or the dating of an archive. These competing values need, thus, to be stored and meaningfully organized in the database. The presentation focuses on how chronological and geographical data (both about the texts and contained in the texts) and their often multiple possible values are dealt with in the arrangement of the database structure of DAMOS.