Slovenian Biography

The paper presents the Slovenian Biography portal and data. The Slovenian Biography currently comprises almost 9,000 person entries, which are composed of the free text from three source biographical lexicons and semi-automatically extracted structured authority records. These contain detailed information about the person name(s), date and geolocated place of birth and death, as well as the occupation(s) of the person from a rich developed taxonomy, covering both historical and contemporary occupations. The encoding of the data follows the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, in particular its module for biographical and prosopographical data. The Web portal of the Slovenian Biography is built on the BaseX XML database engine, queried by XPath / XQuery expressions, the Lucene search engine and the Django web framework. The portal allows faceted search, visualisation on a map, export of the entries in TEI etc. The SB is still work in progress, with new entries being added on regular basis. We are also working on the enrichment of its encoding, e.g. marking up all person names appearing in the text, adding relations between persons and expanding the numerous abbreviations, carried over from the print editions.