Querying Prosopographic Datasets: a Case Study on Ancient Near Eastern Persons in Cuneiform Sources

The advent of Linked Data and of RDF-based representations in the Digital Humanities has brought unprecedented benefits to the collaborative, large scale collection and study of data. However, the models and formats that characterize Linked Data projects can hinder the easy of access to research data by domain experts. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of an interface for querying a prosopographic dataset encoded in a knowledge graph. The interface, designed in cooperation with the domain experts, has been developed according to a test-and-redesign approach to guarantee their capability to afford an easy to use, effective access to data.