Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies

Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-roman Names (SNAP:DRGN)

 * http://snapdrgn.net/


 * PI Gabriel Bodard, King's College London
 * Co-Is: Hugh Cayless (Duke), Mark Depauw (Leuven), Leif Isaksen (Southampton), Faith Lawrence (KCL), Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford)

Description
The Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (hereafter SNAP:DRGN or SNAP) project aims to address the problem of linking together large collections of material (datasets) containing information about persons, names and person-like entities managed in heterogeneous systems and formats.

SNAP:DRGN will publish recommendations and examples, with a view to encouraging: (i) the publication of minimal, consistent prosopographical data in RDF and compatible with the Linked Ancient World Data graph; (ii) building a loose network ancient prosopographical projects that will collectively contribute to a graph of millions of person-records; (iii) stand-off assertions of co-references or other relationships between persons, names and other prosopographical entities; (iv) Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC)-style RDF annotations of named entities in texts to point them to authoritative person-record-clusters in the SNAP:DRGN graph.

(text from http://snapdrgn.net/)

Participating projects and datasets

 * Trismegistos People and Trismegistos Authors
 * Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
 * Prosopographia Imperii Romani (serialization in RDF by Tom Elliott)
 * Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (open annotations)
 * VIAF
 * British Museum person authority list
 * Perseus Catalog
 * Zenon catalogue author list
 * Digital Marmor Parium (open annotations)

Full list at http://snapdrgn.net/team