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        Date: 2025-03-20 00:39:59+00:00
        From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
        Subject: Persons in Context

[from richard.zijdeman@iisg.knaw.nl (DARIAH NCC member)]


Dear all,

I would like to ask to circulate the following with colleagues who could be
interested.

# Persons in Context: Describing person observations in heritage and
humanities

Persons are observed throughout history in books, archival records, images,
paintings and so forth. Linked Data now allows us to describe these person
observations in a universal way. In the Netherlands a group of ontologists
and a community of archivists and researchers has created a vocabulary to
describe such person observations in an abundance of different types of
sources. The vocabulary, Persons in Context,  uses mainly existing terms,
predominantly from Schema.org. Via this vocabulary, archival institutions
and researchers now talk one and the same 'language' when it comes to
describing person observations, allowing for provenance trails from
archival record to research result.

We would very much like to test the 'universality' of Persons in Context,
against archival records, paintings, statues in other European countries.
We therefore would like to draw on your help to see whether you could
provide examples of person observations in records, paintings, statutes and
other sources. Surely, Persons in Context, will not cover all use cases,
but we hope this will serve to bring about a discussion to make Persons in
Context even more widely applicable. You don't need to speak "linked data"
or be aware of the vocabulary. Any examples are helpful to us.

To explain our purposes, illustrate Persons in Context and answer
questions, we organize an open online session, *Friday 2025-04-04,
14:00-15:30 CEST *and we would very much like to invite you to it. Also
feel free to share this message with anyone you think could be interested.

Persons can register for the event by sending an email to data AT iisg.nl
<http://iisg.nl>. (The event link will then be shared with you).

Further details regarding Persons in Context are shared via GitHub:
https://github.com/rlzijdeman/persons-in-context-community


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