Graceful17: Main Data Repository

This dataset originates from the project GRACEFUL17: Global Governance, Local Dynamics. The transnational Regimes of Grace in the Roman Dataria Apostolica in the 17th century in focus.

It provides information on ecclesiastical offices awarded by the Roman Apostolic Datary, an office of the early-modern Catholic Church. It contain data from dioceses from all over Roman Catholic Europe, focusing on the years 1622/23 and 1677/78. 

Content of this Repo:

Graceful17-Graph-Data.zip

•  A static data dump of the knowledge graph data provided in N-Triples, N-Quads, TriG, RDF, Turtle (ttl) and JSON-LD format, separated according to the main ontologies used (GRACE, CIDOC CRM, RiC-O).
• A full dump including all all named graphs (GRACE, CIDOC CRM, RiC-O) in N-Quads and TriG format.
• All controlled vocabularies and thesauri—e.g. categories of benefices, churches, religious orders, and ecclesiastical provinces—as hierarchically structured taxonomies in SKOS format.

Graceful17-Dioceses.geojson

• Geodata—in particular for boundaries of dioceses and ecclesiastical provinces—derived from public geospatial sources, primarily the Earthworks project at Stanford University as as GeoJSON.

Graceful17-Transcriptions.tsv

• Basic transcriptions of the archival sources, along with metadata describing archival storage conditions and creation dates that are provided in Tab-separated Values (TSV) format.

The GRACE ontology used to model the data in the Knowledge Graph is published separately and can be found here.

The Graceful17 knowledge graph can also be queried directly via the SPARQL Enpoint (https://graph.dhi-roma.it/query) or a graphical query builder.

A more detailed description, including the methodological background and instructions on how to query the Knowledge Graph, can be found in the forthcoming data paper.