Pelagios Network People Activity
Jun Ogawa
The first People LOD activity is scheduled for 12:00 GMT on December 1st.
If you plan to participate, please don’t forget to complete your registration in advance.
We look forward to your active participation!
Pelagios Network People Activity: Sample Data Hackathon
Convenors: Gabriel Bodard (University of London); Jun Ogawa (University of Tokyo)
December 1 (Mon), 12–14 GMT & Dec 4 (Thur), 11–13 GMT. Online only.
This activity is a hands-on session exploring some sample person-data (extracts of between 100–1000 records per project in a variety of formats) collected by the Pelagios Network (PN) People Activity.
Participants will be introduced to sample datasets (https://github.com/DigiClass/LOD-People/tree/main/sample-data) with the option to clone or download the repository, or explore the metadata. The goal of the session is to explore alignments and interoperability between datasets. Two working groups will approach this via different methods:
- Individually look at the data and make note of any links or alignments between them, including shared terms or vocabularies, common persons or other entities (facilitated by Gabriel Bodard)
- Experiment—through hands-on activities—with processes such as converting sample data into Wikidata-style RDF, performing data reconciliation, and storing and querying the data in a triplestore (facilitated by Jun Ogawa)
Considering these tasks, the range of background and expertise expected is quite wide, including participants with various backgrounds from those with interest in cataloguing or prosopography to those familiar with more technical aspects of Linked Data (e.g. OpenRefine, triplestores, SPARQL, etc.).
These two groups will then reconvene to discuss and document some of the alignments and reconciliations identified. Discussions of other aspects of the PN People Activity are also expected, and everyone interested in the topic is welcome regardless of level of technical expertise and areas of knowledge.
The anticipated outputs of this activity (such as sample datasets and RDF triples) are planned to be published in our GitHub repository or other triplestores, and the activity itself is also scheduled to be reported as an article for the Stoa Review.
Sign up for this activity: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/pelagios-network-people-activity-sample-data-hackathon
- The activity will be discussed and planned on Ancient People mailing list
- Programme will be updated on the LOD People Wiki
- Outputs will include new data posted to LOD People git repo
- A follow-up event will be held at Linked Pasts Japan II (Feb 2026)
Gabriel Bodard
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