Pantheon: A great resource of people and bibliographical data for PAO systems

When creating a Person-Action-Object (PAO) system, sometimes a major issue is having the creativity and perseverance of coming up with a strong repository of names, pictures, and other related data to use.

While doing some research today on collective learning I came across a really well-curated and research-grade system called Pantheon with a wealth of all the sorts of data one could possibly want when creating a PAO.

Pantheon

Pantheon is an observatory of human collective memory. With data on more than 70,000 biographies, Pantheon helps you explore the geography and dynamics of the most memorable people in our planet’s history.

Most importantly it’s a very visual system and set up, but it also includes data on gender, nationality, time period, and a variety of other axes, so you can custom build sections of your system with interesting levels of specificity and diversity.

Naturally if you’re memorizing dates and places for other reasons, there’s a great wealth of data and some useful visualizations hiding in here as well. I suspect that some may find it useful for work with names and faces too.