History with its evidence

Names in context

A person can have many names across a lifetime. The archive distinguishes name forms, their component parts, scripts, periods of use and sources, including Korean, Chinese and Japanese naming traditions.

Sources and differing accounts

Records can carry citations and evidence for individual statements. Imported material is staged for comparison and human review. A conflicting account is preserved for review rather than automatically replacing an existing record.

Publication and reuse

Only records marked for publication appear on this site. Digital assets have separate publication and rights information. Consult each source and its rights statement before reusing material.

Connected data

Published records have persistent identifiers and machine-readable representations, including Linked Art, LIDO, CIDOC CRM, Europeana EDM, Schema.org, Dublin Core, IIIF and canonical JSON. Format coverage varies with the record type and available data.

The canonical English spelling used throughout this archive is Yi Sun-sin. Alternative spellings may be retained as search aliases or in original source titles and URLs.