Add more data about People

[philgyford]

A vague, nice-to-have idea at the moment.

Make it possible to add structure data about people, which could be used to link them together, show different lists (by birth date, etc), and provide machine-readable data.

Some possible kinds of data from Schema.org:

• birthDate and deathDate
• birthPlace and deathPlace
• children (one item per child)
• parent (one per parent)
• sibling (one per sibling)
• spouse (what about ex-spouses?)
• relatedTo (a bit too vague to be useful?)
• givenName (forename), additionalName (middle name), familyName
• honorificPrefix, honorificSuffix
• gender
• jobTitle
• nationality

[philgyford]

Some other vocabularies (via):

• FOAF Vocabulary Specification
• BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
• RELATIONSHIP: A vocabulary for describing relationships between people

[philgyford]

Some things to think about:

• Relationship fields
  • Need to work with people who are in the DB and people who aren't (just free text names?).
  • If they refer to someone in the DB, would be good to have the reverse relationship added automatically?
• For things like jobTitle, can we specify dates? Same for 'spouse'.
• For birthDate, deathDate etc, can/should we include resolution (e.g. 'sometime in 1660')?
• honorifics/titles (Sir, Duke of York) should, ideally maybe also have dates?