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Beyond Notability: Person of Interest

A Person of Interest is typically a women who worked in archaeology, history and/or heritage between 1870 and 1950, and who we encounter in our main archival records of interest, but it may include some men and other women whose lives are sufficiently of interest to represent more fully.

Where the data is available, the below template should act as a guide for creating new item records for a Person of Interest.

Note that in some cases - such as when a women is listed as the supporter/proposer of the election of a man to, say, the Royal Archaeological Institute (e.g. E. Jackson (Q232) - few details may be known of the person of interest.

BEFORE CREATING A NEW ITEM ALWAYS SEARCH HERE TO CHECK IF A RECORD FOR THEM EXISTS ALREADY (you may be pleasantly surprised!

Capital and Resources

Election

For example for election to Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

election to SAL proposed by (P16) > name of primary proposer (e.g. Society of Antiquaries of London Council (Q27) or A H Thomas (Q155))

With possible qualifier(s):

Residence

resided at (P29) > item for town/village/city in which the person once resided, e.g. West Hoathly (Q183).

With possible qualifier(s):

Qualifications

academic degree (P59) > item for qualification level, e.g. master's degree (Q359).

With possible qualifier(s):

Gender

gender (P3) > item gender, e.g. woman (Q3).

See Property talk:P3 for usage logic, as well as our blogpost 'On Working with Gender'.

Life Events (Births, Marriages, Deaths, Widowhood, Childbirth)

Dates:

date of birth (P26) is used to record date of birth and date of death (P15) to record date of death.

Place of birth:

use place of birth (P30) like residence (P29), as described above.

Family

Various family relationships can be recorded. If you can't find a relationship you want on the list list of properties, adopt it from wikidata. Usage is as follows:

spouse (P41) > item for spouse, e.g. Christopher Hawkes (Q97).

Activities

Public and Professional Activities

Public and Professional Activities (PPA) are work-like activities that people participated as part of their public and profession lives. See Project:Meta/public-and-professional-activities for a full explanation.

Usage patterns depend on the predicate. They include:

was member of (P67) or was fellow of (P75) > typically a society, such as Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (Q285)

employed as (P105) > a job role (e.g. Editor (Q286) or Secretary (Q287); if unknown, use `unknown value` dropdown), with qualifiers:

Land-Proprietor Activities

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External Data

Link to Wikidata/VIAF/Worldcat entries

described at URL (P14) > full url for Wikidata/VIAF/Worldcatitem for person, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18674130, https://viaf.org/viaf/66134485/, or https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2002021916/.

Link to Archaeology Data Service entry

Archaeology Data Service person ID (P34) > free text identifer for person from Archaeology Data Service.

With qualifier:

Link to other IDs

Especially for authors, ideally link to VIAF and WorldCat Identities, where they exist. Use as with Wikidata entry. See Nina Frances Layard (Q60) for example of use.