civil war data 150 at dlf fall forum 2011
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DLF Fall ForumOctober 31, 2011
Civil War Data150: Notes Toward a Linked Data Case Study
Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director
We Are What We Do@jonvoss
Scott NesbitAssociate Director, Digital Scholarship LabUniversity of Richmond@csnesbit
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1. Cultural Heritage in a Mashup Age
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The DJ in the Library?
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History & Mashup Culture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/
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2010 National Archives Photo Contest
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History & Mashup Culture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809
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2. Linked Open Data in
Libraries, Archives & Museums
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photos by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE, TED
LinkedOpenData
2009
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Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
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The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010
http://swib.org/swib11/
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The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010
whereasthe amount of data
relevant for libraries grew by nearly
1000%http://swib.org/swib11/
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Linked Open Datain
Libraries, Archive & MuseumsCulture
Technology
LawLODLAM
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Join the LODLAM movement
• #lodlam
• http://lodlam.net proceedings online and on the road for the next year at various annual meetings and conferences
• http://groups.google.com/group/lod-lam
• Contribute!
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3. A 2 minute or less primer:Tables to Graphs &
Triples
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Going from Tables to Graphs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251
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Going from Tables to Graphs
• nodes and links in a graph
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Going from Tables to Graphs
• As computing power increases, the ability to build more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.
• Human vs. Machine readable
msulibraries lookbackmapsmsulibraries internetarchive
msulibraries librarycongress
lookbackmaps internetarchive
internetarchive librarycongress
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Introducing Triples
jonvoss
Nodes & Links
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Introducing Triples
jonvossfollows
Nodes & Links
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Introducing Triples
jonvossfollows
csnesbit
Nodes & Links
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Introducing Triples
• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object
jonvossfollows
Nodes & Links
SILibrariescsnesbit
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Introducing Triples
• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object
• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way that is machine readable
jonvossfollows
Nodes & Links
SILibrariescsnesbit
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Triples for machines
• triples can be serialized in many different ways, including Resource Description Framework, RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all describe things in the <subject><predicate><object> format.
• of course, we need to be consistent and predictable for machines to understand us.
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What do we know about the person: Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he
rocks)?
Bio: Hacker for libraries, digital archaeologist, pragmatist.
knows
knows
depiction of
bio
http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf
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4. Civil War Data 150
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• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets
• Regiments, Battles, Places
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Primary Partners
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Three Phase Project
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Phase 1: Metadata collection
Licensing and publishing datasets
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/2003653763/
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/
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• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
• http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/
CC BY
CC BY-SA
CC BY-ND
CC BY-NC
CC BY-NC-ND
CC BY-NC-SA
Open Data Published Data
CC0
Public Domain Mark
Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Attribution License (ODC-By)
Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)
Legal Tools
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Phase 2: Vocabulary Alignment
Scripting or Human Judgement
Identifiying Battles, Regiments, Locations
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Phase 3: Publishing/Visualizations
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<rdf:RDF> <frbr:Work rdf:about="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00651205/"> <dcterms:title> 7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861 </dcterms:title> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0146%3Achapter%3D30%3Aregiment%3DNY7StateMilitia”/> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/7th_new_york_militia”/> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource=”http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97059093”/> <xhtml:license rdf:resource="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/"/> <cc:attributionName>Source: Library of Congress</cc:attributionName> </frbr:Work></rdf:RDF>
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Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Visualizing Emancipation
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
OfficialRecords
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
OfficialRecords
Dyer’sCompendium
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
OfficialRecords
Dyer’sCompendium
PerseusProject
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
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Why Humanists Should Like LOD
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
ArmyRegimentLocations
XNew
Arguments+ =
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Emancipationwhere: =
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
“Early on Saturday morning last while off Point Lookout three negroes came to the ship in a canoe from the Virginia shore. They say they are free, but have no free papers, and assign as a reason for running away that they were required to fight. I have also on board two slaves taken from the Virginia shore by the late Commander J. Ward; they say they belong to Mrs. Stewart, a widow, residing near Mathias Point. I respectfully request instructions in relation to all these people.”
-Capt. S. C. Rowan, aboard the U.S.S. Pawnee, to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy,
July 23, 1861
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Visualizing Emancipation
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
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Why Humanists Should Like LOD
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X U.S. Colored Troopswhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Environmentwhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
XSoldierHealth
where: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
XSurvivalRates
where: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Destructionwhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Bushwhackingwhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Railroadswhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Riverswhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
Data Flows
X Occupationswhere: =
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CWD150
Why Humanists Should Like LOD
http://dsl.richmond.edu
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Learn More at DLF:Linked Data: Hands on How-to
2-5pm Nov. 1 with
Kris Carpenter NegulescuRichard RogersMatt ZumwaltSusan Chun
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DLF Fall ForumOctober 31, 2011
Civil War Data150: Notes Toward a Linked Data Case Study
http://civilwardata150.net
Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director
We Are What We Do@jonvoss
Scott NesbitAssociate Director, Digital Scholarship LabUniversity of Richmond@csnesbit