link emperors to works they've written

[paregorios]

for example, add triples like

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gordian_III> dcterms:creator <http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.tebt;2;285/original> 

[paregorios]

you could do this sort of thing for monuments they commission, monuments dedicated to them, etc.

[portableant]

You can pull the monuments and battles out of dbpedia for quite a few of them eg http://dbpedia.org/page/Augustus has so much rich data. I've tried to do this on my pages, but I can't get my SPARQL optionals to work properly across the gamut of emperors eg:

PREFIX owl: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
PREFIX xsd: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
PREFIX rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
PREFIX rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
PREFIX foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
PREFIX dc: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
PREFIX : http://dbpedia.org/resource/
PREFIX dbpedia2: http://dbpedia.org/property/
PREFIX dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/
PREFIX skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
PREFIX dbpedia-owl: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/

SELECT *

WHERE {
?emperor foaf:page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus .
OPTIONAL {?emperor dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract} .
OPTIONAL {?emperor foaf:depiction ?depiction}.
OPTIONAL {?emperor dbpedia-owl:thumbnail ?thumb} .
OPTIONAL {?emperor dbpedia2:imgw ?imgw} .
OPTIONAL {?emperor dbpedia-owl:placeOfBurial ?buried} .
?emperor foaf:page ?page.
FILTER langMatches( lang(?abstract), "en")
}