Ontology of Rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud - RDF version

The purpose of this research in progress is to build an ontology of the rabbis appearing in the Babylonian Talmud. The ontology, the construction of which is still in progress, will be shared as a Linked Open Data and linked to existing vocabularies (among which: Wikidata, DBpedia and VIAF). This work is being developed in the context of the Babylonian Talmud Translation Project, where more than 80 talmudists are working together at the translation of the Talmud in Italian, which will include notes and glossaries, and provide the biographies of the Talmudic Masters this ontology is being constructed from. The ontology will constitute the first portion of a more comprehensive Talmudic Knowledge Base where the text itself, the terminology, the entities and the concepts constituting the Babylonian Talmud will be formalized and linked to each other.