Actes de THATCamp Session proposals, notes, et bien plus de sciences humaines et de la technologie Camp

Linked Open Data and the “New Humanities”

Par Seth Denbo septembre 28, 2012

One of the grails of digital humanities research is being able to demonstrate that new technologies are changing the way we do research and the kinds of knowledge we create. There’s currently lots of excitement about Linked Open Data and the potential that semantic technologies have for humanities research. Le #lodlam hashtag has gained significant traction among members of the digital cultural heritage and digital humanities communities through the efforts of advocates such as Jon Voss from Historypin. The number of sites and organizations that are exposing their data in linked formats is growing rapidly. Projects like wikidata, dbpedia, and the use of linked data formats by a number of important open data sites (data.gov etc) are potentially of enormous benefit to historians and other humanities scholars.

Despite the excitement around semantic technologies, it currently feels like the promise of linked data is yet to be realized. This session would consider the promise and potential future of research using linked data. Rather than focussing on the production of data it would be about how linked data is consumed by scholars. I’m interested in discussing the ways in which Linked Open Data is or could begin to be used by scholars to produce new knowledge. As always with THATCamps the conversation will be open ended and related to the concerns of the people in the room, but some questions we might think about:

– What is linked data?
– How is it different from earlier ways of exposing information on the web?
– Is there current research that is being enabled by linked data?
– What kinds of questions that might be fruitfully posed as the semantic web continues to grow?
– With the increasing power of technologies that can make sense of unstructured data are linked standards necessary?

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I am a cultural historian of eighteenth-century England and have been working on digital humanities projects for several years now. I have a PhD from the University of Warwick and have taught and worked at the University of Sheffield, King's College London, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Having lived, studied and worked in the United Kingdom for most of the past 20 years, I am now living in the Washington DC area and working as the Director of Scholarly Communications and Digital Initiatives at the American Historical Association.

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