The Yellow Nineties Personography

The Yellow Nineties Personography contains biographical information of the persons who contributed to the periodicals remediated in digital editions on The Yellow Nineties Online (https://1890s.ca). These include eight fin-de-siècle magazines: Single-volume Pagan Review (1 volume, 1892) Thirteen-volume Yellow Book (13 volumes, 1894-1897) The Dial (5 volumes, 1889-1897) The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (4 volumes, 1895-1897) The Green Sheaf (13 issues, 1903-1904) The Pageant (2 volumes, 1896-1897) The Savoy (2 quarterly and 6 monthly issues, 1896) The Venture: An Annual of Art and Literature (2 volumes, 1903 and 1905) The data document the communities of production responsible for these historical little magazines, particularly by recovering the social networks of and biographical information about women and marginalized persons in those communities. The dataset enables users to query, visualize, and analyze the relationships, connections, and social networks of magazine contributors. A searchable database of the Yellow Nineties Personography is available online: https://personography.1890s.ca. The data has been converted into Linked Open Data via the LINCS conversion toolkit of the the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Heritage (LINCS) project. The data is assembled as a single text file in text/turtle (.ttl) and contains descriptive metadata that has been reconciled into triples using established linked data vocabularies.