Dear digital classicists,
I have an idle question about proposopographies, onomastica, lexica and
other collections of infomation about persons from the Greco-Roman
world(s). Basically I'm wondering (a) how fully covered the regions and
periods of the ancient world are in prosopographical publication, and
(b) how many of these catalogues and lists are available in digital
form, even if only as a bare list of names/identities.
Needless to say, there are lots of exciting things that could be done
(mostly involving linked data) if lots of these datasets could be
brought together, but I'm not proposing at this point to *do* any of
these things. Rather I'm interested in getting a picture of the scale of
the data available to us.
Off-hand, I can think of the following datasets which have public-facing
digital instances:
* Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
* Prosopographia Ptolemaica/Trismegistos
* Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire/Prosopography of the Byzantine
World
* Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit
And other non-digital prosopographies:
* Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic
* Prosopographia Imperii Romani
* Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
Also:
* Pauly's Realencyclopädie has a lot of persons defined;
* Wikipedia/Dbpedia will have a certain overlap with all of the above,
although is obviously less complete than any of them.
Questions:
1. How many other prosopographies/onomastica are there that are missing
from my list above?
2. What geographic and chronological (and thematic) gaps are there in
the final picture formed by this?
3. How many of these have public-facing digital versions?
4. How many of these have linked data URIs associated with them (or
could be persuaded to do so)?
(It may be that a wiki page will eventually be a better way to collect
this information than an email list. If so I'll start one.)
Thanks,
Gabby
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
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