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The SNAP:DRGN Cookbook – recommendations for producing interchange Linked Open Data from historical person data
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WG1 Gender (from Linked Pasts 6) #1

Open gabrielbodard opened 2 years ago

gabrielbodard commented 2 years ago

Working group: Proposal to add a Gender property to the SNAP Cookbook.

Members: Gabriel Bodard, Tom Gheldof, Scott Smith

Proposal

The SNAP Cookbook will add the recommendation to record the sex/gender of persons in the source prosopographical/person-data using the foaf:gender property – “The gender of this Agent (typically but not necessarily 'male' or 'female').” ¹

“Male” and “female” are the only defined values, but any other string may also be used as the value of this property as required by individual projects, and there is no need to enumerate such values.

This proposal satisfies the two starting criteria of this WG: (1) it enables simply and consistently the values “male” and “female” for the majority of (apparently) unambiguous cases in ancient/historical sources; (2) it is inclusive and open-ended in allowing other values.

gabrielbodard commented 2 years ago

The proposal for this recommended property is now in the Cookbook at https://github.com/SNAP-DRGN/Cookbook/wiki/RDF-9-Gender

Comments and corrections welcome.