LP9 Data Collection Activity

[junjun7613]

This issue item is for the data collection activity at LP9. Contributors should provide the basic information of the dataset they provide, such as name, format, contents, license, and a link to actual data uploaded to this repository.

For example:

name: Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/data/download)
format: CSV, TTL
contents: personal names separated with Roman "tria nomina", reference to EDH ID, gender, origin, status, source attestation, etc.
license: CC-BY-SA
link: https://github.com/DigiClass/LOD-People/blob/main/sample-data/EDH/edh_people.ttl

[GretaHawes]

name: MANTO (https://manto.unh.edu/viewer)
format: CSV, and queriable via the API
contents: disambiguated LOD dataset of "agents" (gods, heroes, monsters etc) and "collectives" (groups of gods, heroes, monsters etc) who appear in ancient sources (texts, artifacts) as characters in mythic narratives. Attributes include alternative names, gender, alignment with wikidata and LIMC, disambiguation categories (possibly same as, rationalised form of, sometimes conflated with etc), genealogical relationships, relationships to places (birthplace, location of death, cities founded etc), other characters interacted with (killing, enslavement, etc), textual passages mentioned in, artifacts depicted on.
license: CC-BY 4.0
Sample dataset showing disambiguation attributions for some entitiesagents and collectives in Apollodoros.csv

Fuller indication of possible attributions for an agent (e.g. = Heracles): https://resource.manto.unh.edu/8188478 and for a collective (e.g. = Greeks at Troy): https://resource.manto.unh.edu/8190050

[gabrielbodard]

Just to note, some more datasets may be found in this list: https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Greco-Roman_Prosopographies (although some are defunct/were never digital, and the list is not comprehensive or up to date).

There may be more at https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Prosopography too. I'd like to think we could make new entries in the DC wiki from some of the discoveries in this avtivity…

[junjun7613]

name: Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (https://romanrepublic.ac.uk/)
format: CSV, JSON, XML, TSV
contents: contains the people from the Roman republic, providing their name (praenomen, nomen and cognomen separated), life span, office, sex, social status, etc .Data collected from Broughton’s Magistrates of the Roman Republic , Rüpke’s inventory of Roman priests in the Fasti Sacerdotum, Zmeskal’s Adfinitas, and Pina Polo’s work on repulsae.
license: CC-BY-NC 4.0
Here is query.csv downloaded from the RDF server of the site with following SPARQL queries:

PREFIX : http://romanrepublic.ac.uk/rdf/ontology#
PREFIX owl: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
PREFIX rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
PREFIX xml: http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
PREFIX xsd: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
PREFIX rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
PREFIX vocab: http://romanrepublic.ac.uk/rdf/ontology#
PREFIX map: http://romanrepublic.ac.uk/rdf/entity/#
PREFIX db: http://romanrepublic.ac.uk/rdf/entity/

SELECT * WHERE{
?s vocab:hasDprrID ?id;
rdfs:label ?label;
vocab:hasNomen ?nomen;
vocab:hasCognomen ?cognomen;
vocab:hasEraFrom ?from;
vocab:hasEraTo ?to;
vocab:hasHighestOffice ?office.
}

Fuller indication of possible attributions for an person (eg. Caius Iulius Caesar): https://romanrepublic.ac.uk/rdf/repositories/dprr/explore?resource=%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fromanrepublic.ac.uk%2Frdf%2Fentity%2FPerson%2F1957%3E

[eltonteb]

name: SlaveAgents (TBC but information here: https://www.ims.forth.gr/en/project/view?id=272)

format: CSV, JSON, JSON-LD, API
contents: disambiguated LOD dataset of "enslaved persons" (and their masters) in antiquity
geographical scope: Western Eurasia and North Africa
temporal scope: 1000 BCE - 300 CE
ancient languages: Greek, Latin, Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic
ancient sources: texts, inscriptions, tombs, votive offerings, utilitarian objects
networks: family, kinship, work, ethnicity, cult
license: CC-BY 4.0

[gabrielbodard]

I have saved a fork of some decade-old SNAP:DRGN code into a new repo at https://github.com/SNAP-DRGN/legacy/, and will try to dig out a small sample of the three main flavours of this data for the LOD-People data gathering as soon as possible.

• Name: SNAP:DRGN (2015)
• Format: RDF/TTL
• Contents: all person records (as of 2014 snapshot) dumped from LGPN, PIR, TM, VIAF (pre 1000) and BM (person authority), converted to SNAP-cookbook compliant RDF by the SNAP:DRGN project (2014–15),
• License: CC-BY or cc-0 ?
• Link: https://github.com/SNAP-DRGN/legacy/

[gabrielbodard]

There are three main person datasets encoded in TEI XML (vintage 2015–2016) in the repo at https://github.com/DigiClass/prosopography

• Fasti of Aphrodisias (from Roueché (2004) Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity)
• Heroes of Attica
• Legio XX Valeria Victrix

All are less than 1000 records each, so could be used as sample person-data, if we felt they were useful.

[gabrielbodard]

Copied over from new issue: message from Nurdan:

BIAAPersons.csv
BIAA Person data set
Digital Repository Example: https://digitalrepository.biaa.ac.uk/biaaperson00055
We will share the project documents here https://digitalrepository.biaa.ac.uk/connecting-archives-connecting-people-project-archive

[gabrielbodard]

Sent by Philip Allfrey on Bluesky:

I've come across a couple of TEI projects in passing which may be suitable:

• https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Persons
• https://github.com/srophe/persons