Gabby,
You may get an idea of the non-digital data set availlable on this
page of the university of Louvain :
http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Proso.html
Pascal Lemaire
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Claire Lowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Gabby
>
> On the non-digital, Rome side of things...what about A.R. Birley’s The
> Roman Government of Britain (2005), (ie supposedly a completely
> rewrite of his (1981) The Fasti of Roman Britain)?
>
> Claire
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Gabriel Bodard
> <[log in to unmask]> 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
>>
>> --
>> Dr Gabriel BODARD
>> (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
>>
>> Department of Digital Humanities
>> King's College London
>> 26-29 Drury Lane
>> London WC2B 5RL
>>
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