2013 Workshop

Detail from Fireworks in the Palace Garden by Romeyn de Hooghe (1686). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (CC0 1.0).

 

Case Studies in Online Collective Biography

Monday 29 July, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

This meeting explored case studies, standards, and best practices relating to the electronic capture and representation of people, biographies, prosopographies, and personal, social, and professional networks, which will feed into the development of our own prosopographical toolset within Early Modern Letters Online. Paper titles link to podcasts and slides.

 

9.15-9.45am

 

Coffee and Pastries on Arrival

 

9.45-10am

 

Professor Howard Hotson & Dr James Brown (University of Oxford)

 

Welcome & Introduction

 

10-10.30am

 

Dr Iva Lelkova (Czech Academy of Sciences)

 

Letters and Prosopography: The Epistolary Networks of Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670) and Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)

 

10.30-11am

 

Dr Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford)

 

Why People Matter: A Bio-Bibliographical Approach to Intellectual History

 

 

11-11.30am

 

Dr Katharine Keats-Rohan (University of Oxford)

 

Prosopography Research

 

11.30-12pm

 

Dr John Davies (University of Glasgow)

 

People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314

 

12-1pm

 

Hot Buffet Lunch

 

1-1.30pm

 

Dr Alexander Czmiel & Dr Janna Hennicke (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences)

 

Person Data Repository

 

1.30-2pm

 

Dr Marco Gurrieri (University of Tours)

 

The PERSONÆ Project: A Web Portal for Prosopographical Databases on Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century Cultural Milieus

 

 

2-2.30pm

 

Dr Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford)

 

Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledge Base

 

 

2.30-3pm

 

Tea and Cakes

 

3-5pm

 

All Paticipants

 

Roundtable discussion of, inter alia:

  • Technical Standards for Prosopographical Databases
  • Data Modeling and Metadata Standards for Prosopographical Databases
  • Survey of Existing Tools and Resources
  • Varieties of Life Events and Prosopographical Relationships
  • Relating People to Place
  • Relating People to Time
  • Visualizations and Network Analysis

 

6.30pm

 

Dinner at Turl Street Kitchen