LOD People activity (2) prosopographical standards and ontologies

Gabriel Bodard

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Jul 30, 2024, 12:53:03 PM7/30/24

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Dear all,

As discussed, the second major collation of information we started at the LOD People kick-off in December 2023 was to collect instances of prosopographical standards, ontologies, and other digital “questionnaires.” (There will be a follow-up activity to this to discuss collating and comparing these, and thinking about what we as the Pelagios Network LOD People activity ourselves want to propose, but I’d like to save that for a later thread.)

The beginnings of our list is at <https://github.com/DigiClass/LOD-People/wiki/Linked-Prosopographical-Standards>. Please let us know if you have anything to add to the standards listed there (you may send them by email to this list, or request editing rights to the Github Wiki and add them yourself). Because this is a short list, I’ll include it in full here, so we can also discuss in email without needing to wander off to another site:

Proposed standards for linked person data known to us:

Others have proposed using:

Wikidata Ontology

E.g. IDEA

CIDOC-CRM
Named Entity Relationship Vetting Environment (part of LINCS)

What is missing? However formalised or otherwise, however core to historical prosopography or otherwise.

Many thanks,

Gabby

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elton barker

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Aug 14, 2024, 3:37:53 AM8/14/24

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hi Gabby,

Below is a brief report from Brady Kiesling, setting out what we've been doing on the Digital Periegesis project, as well as his own experience of mapping modern (Greek) monuments.

We hope it's helpful. Do feel free to get back to us if you have any queries.

elton

We mostly use Wikidata as identifiers, but we give something back, because we have some ability to add literary and literary-archaeological data.

Based on my experiments with modeling people and their commemorative monuments and narrative roles in a Wikidata environment, maybe we could contribute modestly to the discussion of what might be falling through the cracks with our ancient people.

One issue is how to capture honorifics, particularly statues but also heroic honors while also recognizing the motives behind that heroization.

Here's an example with modern statues, where in Wikidata you can find a way to say,

Bust of X COMMEMORATES X.

Object (X ) has role: hometown hero. folk figure (Q1859236)

Subject (Bust of X) has role: glorification of war. [not yet a Wikidata item]

Antiquity is lousy with statues of people and narrative representations of them, that will certainly need more thought than I have given them. Has someone else figured this out?

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Pieter Woltjer

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Sep 17, 2024, 9:44:58 AM9/17/24

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Hello,

At the Dutch CBG|Centre of Family History, we developed a LOD standard for historical person data called Persons in Context (or PiCo in short). See: https://personsincontext.org. It is based on existing ontologies like shema.org, PROV and BIO, with a few additions of our own.

PiCo is developed for maintaining and exchanging historical person data between dutch archival institutions and the WieWasWie platform (https://wiewaswie.nl). WieWasWie contains 240 million historical person records from almost every archival institution in the Netherlands.

PiCo is gaining ground rather fast in the Netherlands. It is proposed as a preferred standard in the dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture (https://netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/activiteiten/dera/). Several heritage institutions are currently working on an implementation. Some datasets are already available in PiCo format, like:

We at the CBG are working together with the three largest providers of collection management systems in the Netherlands to make PiCo available by default for most heritage institutions in the country.

While working on/with Persons in Context we found (and hope) that it may be used outside the Netherlands as well. Genealogical research is never bound to country boundaries. It would be wonderful if Persons in Context would be added to the Pelagios list of proposed standards for linked person data, so more people get to know about its existence.