Linked data for humanities research &amp;#x2014; The SPQR experiment

Blanke, Tobias; Bodard, Gabriel; Bryant, Michael; Dunn, Stuart; Hedges, Mark; Jackson, Michael; Scott, D. A.

doi:10.1109/dest.2012.6227932

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“…Classics studies are akin to History in relying heavily on documents (ancient ones in fact) and so might be deemed quite similar to our latest case. The SPQR ('Supporting Productive Queries") project (Blanke et al, 2012) was retained nonetheless as highly relevant to our study, as it presents itself as "Linked data for humanities research".…”

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“…In the field of Classics research, ancient texts are an important source of information. Even though a large amount of digital material has been created, it can be difficult to access due to its being distributed across locations, stored in diverse and incompatible formats, and either not available online or made available only in isolation (Blanke et al, 2012). The SPQR project uses LD principles and technology to link the existing datasets, "to deliver an integrated data landscape through which researchers can explore and so seek to understand this data" (Blanke et al, 2012, p. 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards linked data: Some consequences for researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Sylva

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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This paper addresses the introduction of Semantic Web and Linked Data technology in Social Science and Humanities research. On the basis of a sample of existing research projects, we examine the impact that the technology has on the research methodology. Three main points of impact were observed. The first is the epistemological foundations of the research, including a focus on individual entities in the research area (or “atomization”), the reification of research objects, and the favouring of analytical skills from researchers. Secondly, in the data analysis phase, research relies more heavily on technical skills during data discovery and processing, and the technology induces growing confusion between data and metadata. Thirdly, we show how the types of models that are built often imply a new encoding of already existing information.

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Section: Case #4: Classicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Case #4: Classicsmentioning

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Towards linked data: Some consequences for researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Sylva

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…gov/ndnp/. 2 See Barbera, 2013;Bizer et al, 2009;Blanke et al, 2012;Meroño-Peñuela et al, 2012;Rademaker et al, 2015;Sztyler et al, 2014. 3 For Canada see http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data and for the United Kingdom, https:// data.gov.uk/.…”

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“… 2 See Barbera, 2013; Bizer et al, 2009; Blanke et al, 2012; Meroño-Peñuela et al, 2012; Rademaker et al, 2015; Sztyler et al, 2014. …”

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Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates

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This paper describes the digitization and enrichment of the Canadian House of Commons English Debates from 1901 to present. We start by laying out the general framework in which this project took place and then present the structure of the database and provide guidelines to prospective users. The paper concludes with the introduction ofwww.lipad.ca, an online platform designed as a hub for archiving Canadian political data, with the parliamentary proceedings at the centre of its architecture.

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“…In another experiment at King's College London, evaluation by researchers found that graph databases were taken up keenly by researchers in classics, as key concepts and documents of the classical world (in this case) could be browsed easily and contextualised with other related concepts. 30 For instance, a researcher might have been recording ancient inscriptions on-site and wish to research or contextualize particular words in them. They might wish to identify inscriptions, which refer to a particular person (e.g.…”

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Integrating Holocaust Research

Blanke¹,

Kristel²

2013

IJHAC

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In this article we present our ideas for an integrating activity for archival research on the Holocaust. We analyse how we can improve Holocaustrelated collection descriptions for research, which we will make available online, and how EHRI provides travel grants for transnational access to existing infrastructures in Holocaust research. Both approaches help us overcome that Holocaust-related material is geographically dispersed and address the challenges for historical research stemming from the way documentation on the Holocaust has been attempted up to now.We have chosen to implement the EHRI integrated information resource using graph databases. With their emphasis on relationships, graph databases are particularly well suited for historical research in particular and humanities research in general. We analyse the architecture and implementation details of this novel approach and show how graph databases integrate with traditional ways of searching and browsing historical collections. This way, we support more advanced means of access to facts in the documents and enable deep semantically meaningful access to the documents. The innovation of EHRI lies in the combination of digital and non-digital means to integrate existing infrastructures. We believe this might be a model for many related research activities in the humanities.

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Linked data for humanities research — The SPQR experiment

Cited by 11 publications

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Towards linked data: Some consequences for researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Towards linked data: Some consequences for researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Digitization of the Canadian Parliamentary Debates

Integrating Holocaust Research

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