Saints, Ancestors and Ashes: Open Semantic Networks from Holy Wells and Ogham Inscriptions to the Campanian Ignimbrite

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. image: Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E Florian Thiery, Fiona Schenk, Peter Thiery ArcheoFOSS | 27-28 Nov 2025 | Busto Arsizio | Italy | 27/11/2025 Panel: Casting the Net Wide Saints, Ancestors and Ashes Open Semantic Networks from Holy Wells and Ogham Inscriptions to the Campanian Ignimbrite Casting the Net Wide: An open, semantic approach for modelling cultural and spatial networks in archaeology 2 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E Case studies from Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Geosciences: Ogham Inscriptions, Holy Wells, and the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption 3 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E The Use Cases represent networks — genealogical, devotional, and geological — unified through Linked Open Data (LOD) principles and implemented within the Wikibase ecosystem 4 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E How to “feed” the (CH-) Federated Knowledge Graph Ecosystem?5 I0I0 0I0I LOD Wikibase FDO GIS OSM LPG HIN EpiDoc Florian Thiery & Andreas Noback, CC BY 4.0 FAIR access to Cultural Heritage data plays a crucial role in fostering transparency, reproducibility, and community engagement 6 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E The Ogham inscriptions of Ireland encode person networks through early medieval kinship formula words inscribed in stone 7 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E The Irish Holy Wells dataset maps saint networks that link sacred water sources with local devotional traditions and Christianisation processes 8 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E The Campanian Ignimbrite eruption, originating from the Phlegraean Fields in Italy, forms a spatial network of volcanic ash deposits and archaeological findspots across Europe 9 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E Ogham Stones within the KG Ecosystem 16 Florian Thiery, CC BY 4.0 Extract from the Linked Open Ogham Ontology 17 E22 TX6 TX1 E25 E22 TX3 Florian Thiery, CC BY 4.0 The Ogham inscriptions of early medieval Ireland and Scotland are notable for their use of formula words for relationships 18 "MAQI" (engl: son, Q67381254) "MUCOI" (engl: tribe; ir: túath, Q67999759), "NIOTA" (engl: nephew, sister`s son) "CATTU" (engl: battle, Q67383338) "ERC" (engl: god, Q67382360) "DALAGNI" (engl: blind, Q68001812) tribe: dovvinias Dovvinias (BALIG/3) [Dovvinia]s (BALIG/7) Dovvinias (BLTAG/2) 19 via http://lod.ogham.link/data/OP400178 via http://w3id.org/cispdb/name/dovvinias tribe: luguni Luguni (WINDG/1) Luguni (KNWEE/2) Luguni (CSKEE/1) Luguni (KNWEE/1) 20 via http://w3id.org/cispdb/name/luguni via http://lod.ogham.link/data/OP400278 name: coimagni Coimagni (LDEIL/2) Coimagni (BLHER/1) Coimagni (AHLIS/3) 21 via http://w3id.org/cispdb/name/coimagni via http://lod.ogham.link/data/OP400090 Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Dublin: Stationery Office. Holy Wells Saints Network The Citizen Science Wikidata Project Holy Wells 23 via https://w.wiki/AQ2F via https://w.wiki/AQ2F via https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_HolyWells Holy Wells having Sketchfab Links to 3D-Models 24 via https://w.wiki/B5ka I0I0 0I0I Holy Wells by etymology 25 via https://w.wiki/AN$c Freshford: St Lachtain's Well 32 Anne-Karoline Distel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons b-unicycling, CC BY 4.0, via https://skfb.ly/oWvIB I0I0 0I0I Freshford: St Lachtain's Well 33 via http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q121840779 via https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/935503837 Campanian Ignimbrite Ashes Network About 40’000 yr b2k ago, the largest eruption of the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) took place in the Phlegraean Fields. 35 Florian Thiery & Fiona Schenk, CC BY 4.0 fuzzy-sl RDF Modelling Scheme 36 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ E53 fuzzy-sl Wikibase Modelling Scheme 37 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0 E53 Findspots with spatial-type: Cave and Archaeologcial Site 38 5 19 Castelcivita Cave in literature and OpenStreetMap 39 Falcucci, Armando, Simona Arrighi, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Matteo Rossini, Owen Alexander Higgins, Brunella Muttillo, Ivan Martini, et al. 2024. ‘A Pre-Campanian Ignimbrite Techno-Cultural Shift in the Aurignacian Sequence of Grotta Di Castelcivita, Southern Italy’. 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