A large and reliable collection of given names with citations to source documents.
Technology
Interface: Website at dmnes.org.
Code: Python. (Technical details.)
Revision Control: Repositories at GitHub: github.com/uckelman/dmnes-viewer and github.com/uckelman/dmnes-editor.
Database: The master data is stored in a set of XML files that are updated by the editor. From there, the data is loaded into a SQLite database used by the web viewer.
Hosting: Linode.
Team
Editor: Aryanhwy merch Catmael (mka Sara L. Uckelman)
Developer: Joel Uckelman
See Also
Additional Indexes for DMNES at digitalherald.org, built via a Perl script that reads citations from a web mirror of the site and builds additional index pages.
History
The predecessor to DMNES was Aryanhwy’s Database of Medieval Names (2009-2013).
The DMNES was announced in 2014 and first published in 2015.
Updates were frequent from 2015 through 2020, and have been much slower from 2021 on.