Dear Neven,
This isn't currently a solution to your problem, but you should know
that a recently funded projected called SNAP:DRGN (Standards for
Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-roman
Names) will this year aim to (a) propose recommendations for linking
together multiple classical person-databases into a single web of linked
data, parallel to the Pleiades and Pelagios projects, and (b) help to
produce RDF and stable URIs for the persons, names and other person-like
entities in as many digital resources as possible so that the sort of
linking you are envisaging will become possible.
I'm not sure that any of our candidate datasets currently include
deities, but I see no reason why such "people" should not be handled in
the same standards and meta-corpus of names.
More information on this project will be posted to this list when we
have a formal announcement. In the meantime, please keep the suggestions
of authorities for divinities coming; that's useful information.
Best,
Gabby
On 2014-01-17 12:01, "Neven Jovanović" wrote:
> Hello digital classicists,
>
> is there a usable (and citable) catalog of "persons" such as deities, from
> antiquity (or otherwise), in the vein of the Perseus Catalog or Pleiades,
> or VIAF or Semium or Geonames?
>
> If we want to have editions as arguments and encoding as interpretation,
> we need to be able to tag "Apollo", "Hercules", or "Bavius" in a text and
> refer to their unique and standard identification somewhere (humor me and
> allow that there can be a unique ID for Apollo, in the same way there can
> be one for New York, or Shakespeare).
>
> Best,
>
> Neven
>
>
> Neven Jovanovic
> Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia
>
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