{"slug": "show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire", "title": "Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire", "summary": "A developer built an interactive map visualizing ~250,000 Roman inscriptions from the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby, using AI to extract personal names, status, and gender with 80–85% accuracy. The tool allows users to explore inscriptions by location, search by name or province, and export data, with a flagging system for errors.", "body_md": "Roman Name Attestations\n\n~250,000 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, enriched with AI-extracted name data\n\nThis map visualises inscriptions from the [Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby (EDCS)](https://db.edcs.eu) that record personal names. For each inscription an AI pipeline attempts to identify individuals and extract their *praenomen*, *nomen*, *cognomen*, status, and gender.\n\nZoom in to explore individual inscriptions. Click any marker to see the people recorded on it, the inscription text, and (where available) a translation and summary. Use the search bar and filters to narrow down what you see.\n\nPrefer to search by name, province, or date? Use the [ Search / Browse](/search) interface to query the database directly, filter results, and export data as CSV or JSON.\n\nName extraction is roughly 80–85% accurate. Errors are inevitable — if you spot a mistake, use the *Flag this entry* button in the detail panel to report it.\n\nInscription data: [EDCS](https://db.edcs.eu) · Cross-references: [LIRE](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8431452), [EDH](https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/), [Trismegistos](https://www.trismegistos.org/) · Map tiles: [DARE](https://dh.gu.se/dare/)\n\nDerived data released under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See [full attribution](/attribution).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire", "canonical_source": "https://new.roman-names.com/", "published_at": "2026-06-10 19:28:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 14:44:30.213186+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby", "EDCS", "LIRE", "EDH", "Trismegistos", "DARE"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-am-building-a-map-of-people-who-lived-in-the-roman-empire.jsonld"}}