The PhD project for RT1: Semantic Annotation is entitled “Attic Oratory and the Semantic Web.”

This project aims to create an open database for the study of Attic Oratory, highlighting the interaction of people and legal events within the corpus of Attic Oratory. This database is based in ontoterminologies and ontologies which contextualize the corpus by defining key concepts, such as legal processes, legal bodies, and legal participants, in a machine-readable, queryable and shareable format.

The ontoterminologies are as follows:

1. Legal Processes Ontoterminology: Describes the legal processes which litigants can take within the Classical Athenian legal system
2. Legal Bodies Ontoterminology: Describes the legal bodies which supervise and judge legal processes within the Classical Athenian legal system
3. Legal Participants Ontoterminology: Describes the non-state actors in legal processes (i.e. plaintiffs, defendants, witnesses)
4. Oratory Corpus Ontoterminology: Defines the types of rhetoric and catalogues the speeches and authors of the oratory corpus