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KOSinHumanitiesResearchandCulturalHeritageCollections
JohanÅhlfeldt,LundandUmeåUniversity,Sweden
ResearchProjects
• DigitalAtlasof theRomanEmpire,partofPelagios Commonshttp://dare.ht.lu.se
• FormativeWisdom.TheReceptionofMonasticSayings inEuropean Culture:Scholarly Collaboration onaDigitalPlatform,http://monastica.ht.lu.se
Researchdatapublishing
• static publishing (static files onserversandmetadata),although compiled inDatacatalogues andregistries
• dynamic publishing (databases,serialization ofdata,Linked Open Data,visualization andanalysis
ResearchdataLifecycleSource:www.jisc.ac.uk
Sources of Humanities data
• Cultural heritage data(e.g.manuscripts andtexts,artefacts)inlibraries,archivesandmuseums
• Open governmental data(e.g.administrativedata,geographic data)
• Researchdatamade available byothers• Own datacollection
Humanities asdataproducer/publisher
• Humanities datacould beregarded asculturalheritage data,e.g.transcriptions andcriticaleditionsof sourcetexts,archaeological finds,listings of historical places,personsandorganizations
Linked Open Data(LOD)intheHumanities
• Linked Open Dataasorganizing principleforresearchdatapublishing
• Stable identifiers andshared ontologies• Dynamic publishinginrealtime
Dualpurpose publishing
• Machine readable (actionable)data,realtimeaccessof large amount of datainwell knownformats(rdf)
• Humanreadable data• Served byacommoninterfacethroughcontent negotiation
Authority data
• Solve ambiguities inidentification of entities,especially inaLODcontext
• Authority dataforhistorical persons,places,time periods,onlinegazetteers,prosopographies andlistsof organizations andterritories
• Additional authority data(VIAF,Wikidata,etc.)
Digitized sourcematerial
Organizing andsharing
• gazetteers of historical places• prosopographies of historical persons• Gazetteerof historical time periods
DigitalAtlasof theRomanEmpire
• ahighlyaccurateandcomprehensivedigitalgazetteerofancientplacesattestedinarchaeologicalandtextualsourcesbelongingtotheGreekandRomancivilizations
• AdigitalbasemapoftheAncientworld,vizualisation ofthegazetteer
Pelagios Commons
• Pelagios isadecentrelized communityandinfrastructureforLinkedOpenDataintheHumanities
• AlignmentofdigitalresourcestogazetteerssuchasPleiadesandDARE(OpenAnnotations)
Pelagios Commons
• Stable URI:sto content ontheWeb• Linking to one of 6gazetteers• Pelagios isacontent aggregator,notaprovider
Pelagios data
• American Numismatic Society• Europeana Eagleproject (inscriptions)• Papyri.info• Arachne - Germanarchaeological institute
Infrastructure
• Authority files forpeople,places andtimeperiods
• Historical Gazetteersthrough PelagiosCommons,e.g.http://dare.ht.lu.se,http://pleiades.stoa.org
• Prosopographies,https://snapdrgn.net• Time periods,http://perio.do
Sustainability issues
• Researchisorganized asshorttermprojects• Noinfrastructure forarchiving andpublishingof researchdata,especially notLOD-baseddataretrieval based onpersistentidentifiers
• Nostable onlineinfrastructure forvisualization andanalysis within universities
Time periods
• ThePeriodO periodgazetteerdocumentsdefinitionsofhistoricalperiodnames
• givetheperiodaname,• imposesometemporalboundsontheperiod,havesomeimplicitorexplicitassociationwithageographicalregion,
• andhavebeenformallyorinformallypublishedinsomecitablesource
Aim of theinfrastructure
• Identify entities insourcematerial• Knowledge sharing