Project:Meta/person

From Beyond Notability

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!

From Source

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):

Fellowships

Presuming they are elected by SAL or RAI, do..

fellow of (P75) > item for institution.

..and repeat for other institutional fellowships mentioned in the source.

Sex or Gender

sex or gender (P3) > item for sex or gender.

Note that we are aware that this needs some work and that Homosaurus can help.

Birth and Death

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).

External Data

Link to Wikidata entry

described at URL (P14) > full url for wikidata item for person, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18674130.

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.