Database of Medieval Nubian Identity Markers (version 1.0)

The Database of Medieval Nubian Identity Markers (DBMNIM) has been created in the framework of the project <em>IaM NUBIAN. Identity and Memory in Christian Nubia: A study on strategies of (self-)presentation and preservation of the past in medieval African society.</em> The DBMNIM is a relational database which fits into a bigger structure of a database of written sources originating from the Middle Nile Valley in Middle Ages, under continuous development by myself. The basic component of this structure is the Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT), available online at www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl, from which the DBMNIM draws the basic metadata for any given text included in the database. The DBMNIM has a three-level structure, represented by three interconnected tables: “Identity markers”, “IM Variants”, and “IM References”, and contains a variety of data that allow the recognition of identity(-ies) of persons occurring in the sources. For the time being, only textual identity markers are covered in the DBMNIM, but the database is designed to include also non-textual markers (graphic signs and representations, contextual information). The database has been designed in FileMaker Pro 16 and the upload includes the original database file in the .fmp12 format. However, in order to ensure a wide accessibility, the contents of the database has been exported into .xml, .csv, and .xlsx files. For detailed information on the structure and contents of the DBMNIM, see the attached DBMNIM_upload_documentation_1_0.pdf file.中世纪努比亚身份标识数据库（Database of Medieval Nubian Identity Markers，DBMNIM）系依托项目‘IaM NUBIAN：基督教努比亚的身份与记忆——中世纪非洲社会自我呈现与历史留存策略研究’开发而成。该数据库为关系型数据库，隶属于中世纪尼罗河谷中游地区书面史料数据库的更大架构体系，目前由本人持续维护迭代。该大型架构的核心组成模块为中世纪努比亚文本数据库（Database of Medieval Nubian Texts，DBMNT），其在线访问地址为www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl，DBMNIM收录的所有文本的基础元数据均取自该库。DBMNIM采用三级架构，由三张相互关联的数据表构成，分别为“身份标识表（Identity markers）”、“标识变体表（IM Variants）”与“标识参考表（IM References）”，其收录的多元数据可用于识别史料中出现的人物身份。目前该数据库仅收录文本类身份标识，但初始设计预留了非文本标识（含图像符号、图像表征与语境信息）的收录空间。本数据库基于FileMaker Pro 16开发，本次上传内容包含格式为.fmp12的原始数据库文件。为保障广泛的可访问性，数据库内容已被导出为.xml、.csv与.xlsx格式的文件。如需了解DBMNIM的架构与内容的详细信息，请参阅附件DBMNIM_upload_documentation_1_0.pdf。