Posted by David Michelson on Sunday, April 6, 2014 in Digital Humanities, public presentations.

Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (SNAP:DRGN) is a collaborative Digital Humanities project to address the problem of linking together large collections of material (datasets) containing information about persons, names and person-like entities managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. SNAP is funded by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Principal Investigator for SNAP is Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London), Co-Investigators are Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford), Mark Depauw (Leuven), Leif Isaksen (Southampton) and Hugh Cayless (Duke), and the Technical Lead is K. Faith Lawrence (King’s College London).

The project website is  http://snapdrgn.net/.