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On Perseus we have Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. These are linkable by URI in the form: http://data.perseus.org/people/smith:<name>[-num]. E.g. http://data.perseus.org/people/smith:alexander-3 (Content negotiation via the HTTP header is currently used to determine whether to return TEI xml or redirect to the Perseus HTML display.) I believe we also have extracted names from a number of back-of-the-book indices which we will be making available this way as well. Bridget On 06/27/2012 07:03 AM, Gabriel Bodard wrote: > 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 >