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KOSinHumanitiesResearchandCulturalHeritageCollections

JohanÅhlfeldt,LundandUmeåUniversity,Sweden

Johan.ahlfeldt@ctr.lu.se

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