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)
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)
1.30-2pm
Dr Marco Gurrieri (University of Tours)
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