Cluster meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies

Invitation to the meeting on 2 September 2025, 2 pm, on the topic of personal data and seals in ancient Egypt: Egyptological thesauri and the development of human-readable standard data

The next meeting of the CC Authority Files and Community-driven Vocabularies will take place on 2 September 2025 at 2 pm.

This time, the focus will be on “Personal data and seals in ancient Egypt: Egyptological thesauri and the development of human-readable standard data” with Alexander Ilin-Tomich.

In the 1990s, when the development of specialised databases was perceived as an imminent task for Egyptology, the specialist community created several thesauri, including the Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus (1996). In the following decades, the number of specialised databases experienced an avalanche-like growth, but the further development of standardised data was downgraded to a niche activity. The lecture reports on the current state of Egyptological norm data using the example of the prosopographical database Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom (https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/info) and outlines a plan for the conversion of existing archaeological classifications into a human-readable norm data set using the example of the perspective database of the scarab-shaped seal amulets excavated in Egypt and Sudan and their impressions.

The access data for Zoom are:

https://dainst-org.zoom.us/j/99974415036?pwd=UVc3SmJ4Y01HaXdEc3Y3M2lzOFpMUT09

Meeting ID: 999 7441 5036, Passcode: 353053

We look forward to your participation, registration is not required!