Rdf. Conferences. Aboutness. Discovery. Persw02. Introduction The aim of this report is to compare and evaluate a number of different schemes for marking-up biographical and prosopographical data and compare these schemes with the mechanisms currently avaialable in TEI P5, in keeping with the aims of the TEI Personography Activity ( ).
The schemes dealt with in this report are EAC (Encoded Archival Context), the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), epiDoc (Epigraphic Documents), HEML (The Historical Mark-up and Linking Project), NOMEN, the GENTECH Data Modelling Project's XML implementation gdxml, GEDCOM XML, the HR XML Consortium's PersonName schema, and xNAL (OASIS TC's Name and Address Standard). Using Markup for Multivariate Analyses in the Prosopographical Study "Formation for the Public Sphere"