ACDH-CH Tool Gallery 7.1

Prosopographical networks tell of people and events in their lives. Who, why and what we remember depends on the context in which we situate people and the questions we ask about their lives and legacy. This largely determines how the data on which the prosopographical research is based are modeled. We investigate the question of which factors play a role in the decisions about the formal representation of information, how modeling decisions influence, which aspects are recorded and which possibilities there are to merge information from several models.

On the first day (June 10, 2021) of this ACDH-CH Tool Gallery, we invite you to a Round Table giving insights into the fundamental considerations and challenges in the modeling of prosopographical data using two different project-specific data models. Matthias Schlögl, The Viennese Court. A prosopographical portal (VieCPro), and Daniel Jeller, Nuns and Monks - Prosopographical Interfaces (NAMPI), present their respective concepts and approaches and discuss them with Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) and Jouni Tuominen (University of Helsinki, Aalto University), experts in data modeling.

On the second day we offer you the opportunity to become active yourself. First, we will reflect on the concepts of data modeling from the previous day. Following this, you will learn about the use of so-called controlled vocabularies as the key to semantic interoperability and expand your understanding through practical exercises in data modeling and prosopographical data tagging. Here you will get to know the application APIS, which is used at the ACDH-CH for the management of prosopographical data.

This ACDH-CH Tool Gallery is also the second part of the “Digital Habsburg Platform” workshop
Digital Habsburg Platform – collaboratively tackling prosopographical data since 2020