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

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

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  1. Our partner databases Prosopographie des Chantres de la Renaissance –

    Tours, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) Base Unique de Documentation Encyclopédique – Orléans, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT) Base Lesellier – Orléans, IRHT L’Édition Italienne dans l’Espace Francophone à la première modernité – Tours, CESR Repertorium Academicum Pictaviense – Poitiers, TECHNE  PCR  BUDÉ  Lesellier  EDITEF  RAP ca. 4.500 singers and composers ca. 16.000 humanists ca. 40.000 French clerics in the Papal Rome ca. 250 Italian printers active in French speaking areas ca. 5.000 students of/from University of Poitiers
  2. PERSONÆ project’s main goals: 1. To create an original web

    portal able to manage any kind of biographical data in a flexible semantic environment (SPARQL) 2. To create a technological framework for identifying common semantic grounds in databases of various structures (although MySQL structured databases are strongly recommended) 3. To provide web tools for searching, analysing and visualising the common sets of data indentified in the partner databases, specifically designed for late medieval and early modern prosopography
  3. PERSONÆ PCR BUDÉ RAP EDITEF Lesellier Simple search • name

    • town • date • institution • occupation Advanced search • all words Search tools Other tools Geolocation Forenames Thesaurus (in progress) (in progress) Occupations Thesaurus (in progress)