EDH and SNAP:DRGN mapping

Participants: Rada Varga, Scott Vanderbilt, Gabriel Bodard, Tim Hill, Hugh Cayless, Elli Mylonas, Franziska Weise, Frank Grieshaber

Date: Monday, May 15, 2017 (afternoon)

Proposal for recasting of EDH person RDF:

1. We propose that EDH split the current person references in edh_people.rdf into: (a) one lawd:Person, which has the properties for name, gender, status, membership, and hasAttestation, and (b) one lawd:PersonAttestation, which has properties dct:Source (which points to the URI for the inscription itself) and lawd:Citation. Date and location etc. can then be derived from the inscription (which is where they belong).
2. A few observations:
   1. Lawd:PersonalName is a class, not a property. The recommended property for a personal name as a string is foaf:name
   2. the language tag for Latin should be @la (not lat)
   3. there are currently thousands of empty strings tagged as Greek
   4. Nomisma date properties cannot be used on person, because the definition is inappropriate (and unclear)
   5. As documented, nomisma date properties refer only to numismatic dates, not epigraphic (I would request a modification to their documentation for this)
   6. the D-N.B ontology for gender is inadequate (which is partly why SNAP has avoided tagging gender so far); a better ontology may be found, but I would suggest plain text values for now
   7. to the person record, above, we could then add dct:identifier with the PIR number (further disambiguation to follow)