SNAP secondary recommendations workshop

[Gabriel Bodard]

Booking, updates and other details: https://linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/linked-pasts-11-programme/#Snapdrgn

SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations: TEI XML and Wikidata

Convenors: Gabriel Bodard (University of London), K. Faith Lawrence (The National Archives), Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (SNS Pisa), Charlotte Tupman (University of Exeter)

We will run a short workshop to build on the recommendations of the SNAP Cookbook <https://github.com/SNAP-DRGN/Cookbook/wiki>, which specifies a light RDF model for encoding an interoperability focussed subset of person data from digital prosopographies, catalogues and similar datasets. SNAP recommends a short list of essential fields that are common to many person records: URI, type, citation, collection, names, attestations, identifiers, place, date, titles, events, gender, relationships.

After a short introductory video meeting on Monday 1st December at 14:30 GMT, participants in this workshop will invited to contribute to one or both of two strands:

• Wednesday 3rd December, 15:00 GMT
  SNAP in TEI XML. This session will map the key features of a SNAP person record to elements in the TEI Personography module, including the reference to URIs for entities and vocabularies where these exist. This recommendation will cater to projects that already use TEI XML for their prosopographical or person authority data, or individuals who know TEI better than they do RDF, and open a pathway to producing SNAP RDF via shared XSLT stylesheets (partly already in existence).
• Thursday 4th December, 15:00 GMT
  Wikidata properties, classes and data models. We will start the process of mapping the key elements of SNAP interoperability data to a person record in Wikidata, primarily by identifying (or in some cases perhaps proposing new) properties and other Wikidata URIs for these features of a person record. The goal is to enable maximum compatibility with existing datasets in what is already a massive, valuable interoperability medium.

Both of these activities will be held via Zoom calls, with shared docs, Git repos and Wiki also available for final outputs of the workshop. After the initial meetings, further discussions may follow in the new year as required.

Register for this activity: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/snapdrgn-secondary-recommendations-tei-xml-wikidata

Where to find out more about this activity:

1. Working document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bM6OIAri46szls4w_1dOExU7DsMfODkjXN8GDh3x-Uc
2. Eventual inclusion in the SNAP Cookbook <https://github.com/SNAP-DRGN/Cookbook/wiki>
3. Announcements and discussion on the Ancient People discussion group.

NB: this is not an official meeting of the Pelagios Network People WG (although it may of course be of interest to many of the same people).

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Dr Gabriel BODARD (he/him)
Reader in Digital Classics

Director of Studies (research): Digital Humanities Research Hub

Director of Studies (research): Institute of Classical Studies

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