BlemonBL
commented
6 years ago A note to acknowledge that PIDs for historical people, historical geographies and timeframes are unlikely to fit with current formats or approaches to metadata. They will likely rely upon further collaborative projects that can collate definitions of people, places and eras and can handle multiple versions of the same subject.
mfenner
“As an historian of ancient civilisations, I need a means of identifying precisely which version of a fictional or mythical personage I am writing about, particularly when the existence of that individual and/or their surrounding circumstances are contested.”