There were two workshops on prosopography at this year’s DH conference in Lausanne. The first one, spearheaded by Harvey Quamen, with assistance from Constance Crompton and myself, covered database options available for working with prosopographical data, specifically MySQL and Neo4j. Harvey was nice enough to set up a website for our workshop, and the slides and resources that were discussed have been posted.
Harvey in action at DH2014:
Prosopography by @hquamen #dh2014 pic.twitter.com/L2QmWUSrho
— Mikal Eckstrom (@historyequals) July 7, 2014
The second workshop was on Ontologies for Prosopography. More details about the workshop are available on stoa.org.
Exciting international projects about reconstructing social networks of the past at #dh2014 prosopography workshop pic.twitter.com/o9A1u0inKk — Frederic Kaplan (@frederickaplan) July 8, 2014
John Bradley at #dh2014 prosopography workshop: good ontology design practice is a kind of “Occam’s razor”. pic.twitter.com/45LIbY643A
— Frederic Kaplan (@frederickaplan) July 8, 2014
If you’re interested in continuing a discussion of methodology and possible collaborations in the area of historical, ancient historical and modern prosopography and person database projects. If you are interested in joining, please send a message to the Google Group for iPRG, the International Prosopography Research Group.